Posts by Gay Clyburn

  • July 24, 2014

    Creating a Classroom Culture for Student Success

    By Gay Clyburn

    In designing two alternative mathematics pathways for students taking college developmental math classes, Carnegie has acknowledged student baggage as one of the key drivers that must be addressed to fully support student success.

  • July 31, 2013

    Learning Our Way Into a Better System

    By Gay Clyburn

    At Carnegie’s Pathways National Forum faculty members, administrators, institutional research staff, and education researchers gathered to continue their efforts to reclaim the mathematical lives of students who place into developmental mathematics.

  • April 22, 2013

    Carnegie Project to Examine Improvement Networks

    By Gay Clyburn

    Carnegie has selected two organizations to work with to better understand the work practices of networks that are deliberately organized to improve teaching and learning in schools, colleges, and other places where people learn.

  • July 24, 2012

    Carnegie Launches Subnetworks

    By Gay Clyburn

    Carnegie's Pathways has launched several subnetworks, a team of NIC members, to work together on a specific problem, challenge, or development priority within the Network.

  • July 24, 2012

    The Power of Networks

    By Gay Clyburn

    The high levels of student success from the first year of Statway and Quantway highlight the power of working together, across campuses as a Networked Improvement Community.

  • July 12, 2012

    A Course and So Much More

    By Gay Clyburn

    The Carnegie Foundation has launched two pathways, Statway and Quantway, to help students succeed in developmental mathematics. Statway and Quantway are more than courses, they are entire new instructional systems.

  • May 2, 2012

    Recommendations May Not Go Far Enough

    By Gay Clyburn

    The recent American Association of Community Colleges 21st-Century Commission recommends having a goal to increase completion rates by 50 percent by 2020. Carnegie's work on developmental mathematics suggests we can achieve even more.

  • May 2, 2012

    Early Results

    By Gay Clyburn

    Statway is continuing to show early signs of success. 88% of students who passed the first term of Statway have enrolled in the second term and will earn college credit with its completion.

  • May 2, 2012

    Reforms with Promise

    By Gay Clyburn

    The Carnegie Foundation has launched a national network of 27 community colleges and three universities dedicated to helping students at the greatest risk of failure in math which is showing promising results.

  • March 1, 2012

    Too Many Students in Remedial Classes?

    By Gay Clyburn

    Two new studies from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College found that more community college students are in remedial education classes than need be. The studies found that more than a quarter of the students assigned to remedial classes based on placement test scores could have…

  • February 9, 2012

    Community Colleges in the News

    By Gay Clyburn

    You might be interested in the release of a couple of reports on community colleges and a news article on the budget situation in California and how community colleges are affected. OPEN-DOOR POLICIES AT TWO-YEAR COLLEGES FACE THREAT, REPORT SAYS The nation’s college-completion agenda may be threatening open-door admissions policies at two-year institutions, says…

  • January 17, 2012

    Lesson Study Revisited

    By Gay Clyburn

    You might find this article about lesson study from The Hechinger Report interesting. Carnegie is using lesson study, not exactly in the way outlined in this article, but to improve our mathematics pathways. Statway and Quantway faculty teams at each community college site will be organized into lesson study groups.…

  • January 17, 2012

    Juggling student access and success

    By Gay Clyburn

    An article by the Associated Press examines the way California community college leaders are struggling with the competing demands of student access and success. CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEADERS CALL FOR OVERHAUL California community college leaders have signed off on major policy changes aimed at boosting graduation and transfer rates in…

  • January 17, 2012

    Exploring Learning Opportunities

    By Gay Clyburn

    This video showcases a panel discussion on learning opportunities from the Quantway™ and Statway™ 2011 Summer Institute. Hosted by Kay Merseth of the Carnegie Foundation and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the panelists include: Jim Stigler, Carnegie Foundation, UCLA; Uri Treisman, Charles A. Dana Center, U. of Texas, Austin;…

  • December 7, 2011

    A Hub by Any Other Name

    By Gay Clyburn

    Joshua Glazer visited Carnegie recently to talk about ideas outlined in an article, “Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement,” that was published in the Journal of Educational Change. Glazer is with The Rothschild Foundation in Jerusalem and his co-author Donald Peurach is with the School of Education at…

  • December 6, 2011

    Learning From Practice to Improve Practice

    By Gay Clyburn

    In a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association of Community College Trustees in Dallas recently, Carnegie President Tony Bryk outlined for the Trustees how Carnegie is using improvement research in our work to improve the success rate of students in developmental math. “We need to rethink how…

  • November 14, 2011

    Pathways Update: Good News from the Campuses

    By Gay Clyburn

    Good News from the Campuses We now have 30 colleges participating in our two networked improvement communities—22 in Statway™ and eight in Quantway™. There are 1200 students enrolled in 60 sections of Statway™, and Quantway goes live in classroom beginning in January. Over 80 faculty members are now network members,…

  • July 8, 2011

    Mathematics and Democracy and What We Know

    By Gay Clyburn

    LESSONS LEARNED FROM MATHEMATICS AND DEMOCRACY “Indeed, as the twenty-first century unfolds, quantitative literacy will come to be seen not just as a minor variation in the way we functioned in the twentieth century but as a radically transformative vantage point from which to view education, policy, and work.” Mathematics…

  • July 1, 2011

    Fong, Treisman are part of new commission

    By Gay Clyburn

    New National Commission To Help Reshape the Future of Community Colleges Association Leader Says Effort Will Address Hard Choices, Embrace Innovation WASHINGTON, D.C. – For only the third time in their 110-year history, community colleges are preparing to take a holistic look at their broad and continuously evolving mission with…

  • June 29, 2011

    HOW WEB VIDEO POWERS GLOBAL INNOVATION

    By Gay Clyburn

     TED’s Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness.

  • June 9, 2011

    Learning by Doing: Building a Networked Improvement Community

    By Gay Clyburn

    A concrete way to learn how a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) might organize and carry out a better program of educational R&D is to build one. In this spirit, the Carnegie Foundation in partnership with several other colleagues and institutions, is now initiating a prototype NIC aimed at addressing the…

  • February 3, 2011

    Educational Innovation and Technology

    By Gay Clyburn

    A New Look at Scale and Opportunity to Learn “There still remains room for optimism in technology’s ability to transform education, in part, because of its almost unique role in enhancing all students’ opportunities to learn,” write Carnegie Senior Partner and University of Pittsburgh professor Louis Gomez, Carnegie Visiting Resident…

  • January 5, 2011

    90–Day Cycles and Improvement Research

    By Gay Clyburn

    In a recent Education Week article, representatives from private and government organizations concerned with education research lined up behind the 90-day cycle model, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Mass., as a way to accomplish “deep-dive, quick turnaround” education research. Carnegie leadership spent a week at…

  • October 12, 2010

    90-Day Cycle: Exploration of Math Intensives as a Strategy to Move More Community College Students Out of Developmental Math Courses

    By Gay Clyburn

    Last year, Carnegie engaged Jennifer Zoltners Sherer from the University of Pittsburgh to work with a team of Carnegie staff to explore the potential of math intensive programs as a strategy for addressing the failure rates of developmental mathematics students in community colleges. These math intensive programs include boot camp…

  • August 24, 2010

    Learning from The Wisdom of Crowds

    By Gay Clyburn

    In The NYT article, Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review,” Patricia Cohen advocates using the Internet to expose scholarly thinking to the swift collective judgment of a much broader audience.

  • November 5, 2009

    The Fifth Discipline

    By Gay Clyburn

    In The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, scientist and organizational-theory expert Peter Senge describes a learning organization as a place of aspiration, nurturing and learning.

  • October 30, 2009

    Research Confidential

    By Gay Clyburn

    Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have has just been published by the University of Michigan Press.

  • August 5, 2009

    Addressing Student Success in Developmental Mathematics

    By Gay Clyburn

    During a July convening at Carnegie with representatives from several organizations working on increasing success for community college students in developmental mathematics, participants came up with some tensions that need to be acknowledged and/or addressed. Those include: Increased pressure to increase graduation and completion rates and the desire to get…