Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network Announces 2013 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Recipients
The Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network has named Jeff Kosovich, Brett Peters, and Stephanie Reeves as pre-doctoral fellows for 2013-2014.
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July 31, 2013 July 31, 2013 Learning Our Way Into a Better System
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.
June 26, 2013 Access to Data as Part of Improvement Strategy
While articles focus on access and privacy of data, what needs to be explored is how to utilize increasing access to individualized, longitudinal data to improve student outcomes and decisions making.
June 11, 2013 Accelerating Learning about Practices That Support More Productive Student Mindsets
White paper, Improvement Research Carried Out Through Networked Communities: Accelerating Learning about Practices that Support More Productive Student Mindsets, explores improvement science as a way to address problems facing educators.
May 31, 2013 Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Teacher Evaluations
Districts are dedicating increasing human and financial resources to teacher evaluations, but finding enough time remains an issue. Three major trends have emerged as differentiation has become an increasingly popular option.
May 28, 2013 The Carnegie Unit – Revisited
The current use of the Carnegie Unit was never the intent when it was first created. The Carnegie Foundation is embarking on an initiative to revisit the Carnegie Unit.
May 22, 2013 Continuous Improvement Methodology Holds Promise for Real Change in Education
In this white paper, the authors draw on examples that illustrate how continuous quality improvement methodology is being applied in education toward the goals of making education more efficient, effective, and equitable.
May 3, 2013 New Report on Productive Persistence: Pathways to Improvement
In the Pathways, Carnegie is testing a set of strategies to help students persist and succeed academically. This report examines this kind of persistence, called Productive Persistence, which is addressing the alarming student failure rates.
April 22, 2013 Carnegie Project to Examine Improvement Networks
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.
March 14, 2013 Carnegie Program Achieves Dramatic Success for Community College Students in Developmental Mathematics
The results from the first year of Community College Pathways Program, the 2011-2012 academic year, show a dramatic rate of success for students enrolled in developmental mathematics. Learn how Pathways is achieving these impressive results.
February 4, 2013 Using Improvement Science to Improve Teaching and Learning
The Pathways' Productive Persistence Subnetwork is addressing the problem of student motivation, tenacity, and skills for success in developmental mathematics.
January 8, 2013 Positive Changes on Productive Persistence Measures
Carnegie's Pathways is helping students to succeed in developmental mathematics by developing tenacity and good strategies, the two main components of productive persistence.
January 8, 2013 Andrea Levy: Strategies to Support Developmental Math Students
Andrea Levy, Statway instructor at Seattle Central Community College, speaks about how she supports her students intellectually and emotionally to help them succeed.
September 13, 2012 The Futures of School Reform
The essay “Building on Practical Knowledge" presents a third way to conduct research that incorporates practitioner knowledge using Networked Improvement Communities.
August 28, 2012 Tough’s Book Supports Carnegie Work in Productive Persistence
Paul Tough’s book “How Children Succeed” highlights the impact of noncognitive skills, like persistence, self-control, curiosity, grit and self-confidence, on student success.
August 13, 2012 The Era of Networked Science
In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Michael Nielsen explains how the internet has created the conditions for a completely open research field in which increased collaboration can help spur innovation.
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