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The Council of Chief State School Officers’ new report, Imagining More: How State Education Agencies Can Modernize the K-12 Education System to Put Student Learning at the Center, is out now with recommended actions that state leaders can take at a systems level to make way for this transformation, including…
In March 2015, the second annual Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education brought together hundreds of education leaders to change the way the education field learns to improve.
We have designed a 6-month-long journey to guide you through the use of improvement science in your organization. The in-person workshop is an important part of the experience, but a small portion of the overall time you will spend working on this project. Along the way, we will provide a…
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In a recent article, High Tech High faculty and administrators highlight how they used the tools and mindsets of improvement science to increase the number of African American and Latino male students who directly attend 4-year institutions.
The Carnegie Foundation conducts its work by leveraging its expertise, assets, partnerships, convening power, and social and reputational capital to address long-standing educational inequities that impede economic mobility and exacerbate racial inequality.
On May 28, 2014, the Carnegie Foundation hosted a webinar that featured a panel of district leaders and teachers from the School District of Menomonee Falls who discussed how they balanced a commitment to quality improvement in the classroom with state-level initiatives such as teacher evaluation and student learning objectives.…
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