Learning from The Wisdom of Crowds
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.
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August 24, 2010 April 1, 2010 Networked Improvement Communities: the Time is Right for the Ties that Bind
This interview with Louis M. Gomez, a Senior Partner at Carnegie, and details the Knowledge Alliance, a mix of doers and thinkers with aspirations to improve education for all students.
January 29, 2010 Reflections on The Best Practice: Learning from the Emergence of Quality Improvement in Healthcare
Education Has Much to Learn From Healthcare Reform Efforts. Reflections on The Best Practice: Learning from the Emergence of Quality Improvement in Healthcare.
January 13, 2010 Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky evaluates the effect of the Internet on modern group dynamics.
November 24, 2009 What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics
An investigation into what community college developmental mathematics students understand and how we might help turn around alarming statistics of students drop outs.
November 11, 2009 Making Healthcare Better Has Lessons for Making Education Better
When looking for comparisons, people who want to change education often consider health systems.
November 5, 2009 The Fifth Discipline
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 College Enrollment Hits All-Time High, Fueled by Community Colleges
The share of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high in October 2008, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
October 30, 2009 Research Confidential
Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have has just been published by the University of Michigan Press.
October 6, 2009 Transfer from Two-year to Four-year College Complicated
This month’s “Progress of Education Reform” report from the Education Commission of the States delves into a big issue for this sector education, transfer and articulation.
August 5, 2009 Addressing Student Success in Developmental Mathematics
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…
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