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.
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May 28, 2013 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.
July 24, 2012 Carnegie Launches Subnetworks
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
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
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.
June 13, 2012 Carnegie Invites Researchers to Work on Student Success Problem in Community Colleges
Carnegie is launching the Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network, a National Science Foundation funded project that aims to coordinate the efforts of researchers interested in leveraging their own research expertise to improve the Carnegie Pathways.
May 3, 2012 Improvement Research: The Carnegie Way
The Carnegie Foundation is adopting improvement research methods and learning from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to address the gap between what is known and what happens daily in practice.
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