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…
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…
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.
Background Information for Faculty Arithmetic and Algebra Skills Aren’t Enough Any More! “Despite its occasional use as a euphemism for statistics in school curricula, quantitative literacy is not the same as statistics. Neither is it the same as mathematics, nor is it (as some fear) watered-down mathematics. Quantitative literacy is…
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…
In the past few years, organizations like ours have looked to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a model for employing improvement research to support sustainability and scaling efforts in various fields. There are many good reasons for this. IHI, created by Don Berwick and colleagues in the late…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Education Has Much to Learn From Healthcare Reform Efforts. Reflections on The Best Practice: Learning from the Emergence of Quality Improvement in Healthcare.
Clay Shirky evaluates the effect of the Internet on modern group dynamics.
An investigation into what community college developmental mathematics students understand and how we might help turn around alarming statistics of students drop outs.
When looking for comparisons, people who want to change education often consider health systems.
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.
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