Our Work
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION IN AMERICA FROM HIGH SCHOOL THROUGH POSTSECONDARY.
HIGH SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION
We’re working to instantiate a new education architecture to ensure that learning is increasingly engaging, experiential, and career-aligned.
POSTSECONDARY INNOVATION
We aim to make the postsecondary sector a more vital engine for social and economic mobility.
Together, with partners, we can forge catalytic and intentional connections across boundaries – practice, scholarship, policy, design, innovation and with the commercial and social sectors.
We aim to have a demonstrable impact on the trajectories of millions of young people, and in so doing, advance economic and educational opportunity at broad scale.
120 Years of Impact in Education
1906
Carnegie Foundation is chartered by Congress
1918
TIAA_CREF (TIAA) Pension Fund established
1937
Graduate Record Examination (GRE) developed
1947
Educational Testing Service (ETS) launches
1968
Research supports creation of federal Pell Grant Program
1971
Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education
2022
High School Transformation
2025
Opportunity Colleges and Universities (OCUs)
A National Call to Action
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie’s national Research and Development Agenda (R&D Agenda) is aimed at supporting the transformation of the American high school from time-based to competency-based models, to better prepare students for civil society and the modern economy.
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