In this conversation, Aurora Institute's Virgel Hammonds opens up about his professional journey, the Aurora Institute’s mission to transform K-12 education, and highlights the critical role of personalized, competency-based learning in fostering student success. He reflects on Aurora’s efforts to reshape education systems by partnering with policymakers, educators, and communities…
Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles’s opening to our monthly newsletter. Click here to read the full October 2024 newsletter, and join our mailing list for future editions. Dear Friends and Colleagues, By 2030, the activities that account for an estimated 30% of working hours could be automated by AI. The labor market…
Photo Credit: American Council on Education In an open memo to the presidential candidates recently featured in the New York Times, the American Council on Education (ACE) highlights the pivotal role that postsecondary institutions play in shaping the nation’s social and economic landscape. With a focus on alleviating student debt,…
Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles’s opening to our September 2024 newsletter. Join our mailing list for additional resources and recommended reads. Sign Up for the Carnegie Foundation Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues, Across the nation, in districts large and small, extraordinary work is taking place to ensure learning is…
Delve into this thoughtful Q&A with Dr. Bill Nicely, Educator-in-Residence for Real World Learning at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In this conversation, Bill delves into the Real World Learning initiative, sharing the initiative’s origins, goals, and the remarkable impact of Market Value Assets on students in the Kansas City…
Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles’s opening to our August 2024 newsletter. Join our mailing list for additional resources and recommended reads. Sign Up for the Carnegie Foundation Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues, If you look closely at the landscape of secondary schooling across the nation, you will see a…
Explore this thoughtful Q&A with National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) President and CEO Paolo DeMaria as he shares his journey as a public servant and state leader in Ohio as well as a nationally regarded education policy voice.
Earlier this year, the Carnegie Postsecondary Commission released its inaugural vision paper, “Revitalizing Higher Education: A Blueprint for Transformative Change.” As a precursor to this release, we commissioned the HEA Group to produce three baseline papers, as the Commission considered ideas and endeavors that will lead to transformational change of…
At Carnegie, the heart of our work is to make education a much more powerful engine of economic opportunity for all. We are working to transform the American high school, partnering with the XQ Institute, pathfinding educators, school systems, and states and leading institutions across the nation.
Explore this illuminating Q&A with Carnegie Foundation Board Chair Diane Tavenner as she discusses her journey from the K12 sector to launching her latest venture. Discover Diane’s framework for categorizing post-high school learning pathways and read about her strong belief in empowering young people with transparent, actionable information about post-high…
At the end of a demanding and dynamic school year, we naturally want to celebrate the accomplishments of our students. My thoughts also turn to the hundreds of thousands of teachers and mentors – in classrooms, after-school programs, and internships, at work and volunteer opportunities, and on practice fields –…
In this insightful Q&A, Diego Arambula, Vice President for Educational Transformation at Carnegie Foundation, delves deeper into the topics introduced in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, The Next Update of the Carnegie Classification Will Be Its Biggest Yet. Diego brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective…
Jenna Hua, Carnegie Foundation Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, presented her undergraduate research alongside Wellesley College Professor Stephen Chen in a poster session at the 2024 Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Conference in April. With research indicating a low sense of belonging among immigrant college students, coupled with the rise of xenophobia…
The Economist recently profiled GRAD Partnership, a partnership organization Carnegie Foundation joined in 2022 to bring the use of evidence-based student success systems from a new practice to a common practice. Manzano High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico was profiled in the piece for having worked with the GRAD Partnership…
Last month, I had the pleasure of being part of a fireside chat with Russlynn Ali (CEO, XQ Institute) and Tom Vander Ark (CEO, Getting Smart). In the session, Russlynn reminded us the time is now to join together to transform secondary schooling, and those who engage, invest, and advocate…
Akron Public Schools (APS), a member of the Carnegie Learning Leadership Network based in Ohio, completed its inaugural Changemaker Challenge, an initiative encouraging students to become community leaders by identifying and proposing creative solutions to local issues. Students across the district were actively engaged in projects ranging from environmental conservation…
The Baltimore Ravens, the Stephen and Renee Bisciotti Foundation, and M&T Bank have collectively donated $20 million to support the expansion of College Track in Baltimore–a significant investment that aims to establish a new center for the national college completion program, which supports underserved high school and college students. This…
We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 Global Leadership Program Cohort — a group of thirteen African Leadership University students tackling their nation’s greatest challenges. Now in its third year, the Global Leadership Program will run from from May 6 to June 5, 2024. Participating ALU students will spend three weeks in…
At a time when our nation often seems so divided, consensus on anything can feel frequently out of reach, especially in discussions about education. However, if you look closely at some of the policies and practices enacted by schools, systems and states across the country, you will see remarkable unanimity…
Please join us in congratulating Edit Khachatryan, senior associate of Networked Improvement Science at Carnegie Foundation. She has contributed to the publication Catalytic Improvement Communities: Cultivating Flourishing Schools, by Johnathan Eckert and Bradley Carpenter.
On March 19th, Getting Smart and Education Reimagined hosted the Getting Smart Town Hall focusing on the advancement of learner-centered ecosystems across the nation. This event featured our very own Dr. Val Brown, Director of Future of Learning, who sat on a panel with other innovative leaders: Emily Liebtag, Chief Innovation…
While the value of a college degree is increasingly scrutinized in the public arena, it remains undeniable that a postsecondary education is a powerful lever for achieving social and economic mobility in the United States.
This is an excerpt by Mushtaq Gunja and Sara Gast of the Carnegie Classifications on Higher Education. For the full article, visit acenet.edu. Since 1973, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education has served as the predominant framework to classify American colleges and universities. It was originally created for researchers as…
At this year’s Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education, XQ Institute, a 2024 sponsor, is leading the charge in transforming the educational landscape with two exciting, dynamic sessions. Reimagining High School: Watch, Lunch, and Learn is a standout session where attendees are treated to a special screening of The…
Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles’s opening to our February 2024 newsletter. Join our mailing list for additional resources and recommended reads. Sign Up for the Carnegie Foundation Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues,If you’ve had the chance to read any of the featured stories included in previous editions of this…
Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles’s opening to our January 2024 newsletter. Join our mailing list for additional resources and recommended reads. Sign Up for the Carnegie Foundation Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues,Happy New Year! I hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful holiday, stayed healthy, and are…
Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles’s opening to our December 2023 newsletter. Join our mailing list for additional resources and recommended reads. Sign Up for the Carnegie Foundation Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues, Every year in December, I read poetry. Poems help me slow down, listen, and think anew. Recently,…
The following Q&A features insights from Samuel Onyango Omondi, an African Leadership University (ALU) student pursuing a bachelor’s (B.Sc Hons) in software engineering. Samuel was one of 20 ALU students to participate in the 2023 Global Leadership Program, a month-long entrepreneurial leadership immersive learning experience in Silicon Valley at the…
The following Q&A features insights from Nqobile Jenipher Ncube, an African Leadership University (ALU) student pursuing a bachelor’s (Hons) in social sciences. Nqobile was one of 20 ALU students to participate in the 2023 Global Leadership Program, a month-long entrepreneurial leadership immersive learning experience in Silicon Valley at the Carnegie…
The following Q&A features insights from Nwalahnjie Anye Akumawah, an African Leadership University (ALU) student pursuing a bachelor’s (B.Sc Hons) in software engineering. Nwalahnjie was one of 20 ALU students to participate in the 2023 Global Leadership Program, a month-long entrepreneurial leadership immersive learning experience in Silicon Valley at the…
At the close of the Global Leadership Program this summer, student participants ran a week-long design sprint and proposed user-centered solutions to Afrocentric issues in one of the three thematic areas explored throughout the program: Education Futures (EdTech), Sustainable/Smart Agriculture, and Affordable Health (Health Tech). Students formed design teams to…
Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles’s opening to our November 2023 newsletter. Click here to read the full newsletter, and join our mailing list for additional resources and recommended reads. Sign Up for the Carnegie Foundation Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues,At a time when our nation often seems so divided,…
In August, I traveled to Rwanda at the invitation of Fred Swaniker, founder of the African Leadership University (ALU) and senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation. I was invited to participate with a group of global advisors to help reimagine Rwandan higher education policies with the Minister of Education and…
Dr. Valeria Brown, Carnegie Foundation’s Future of Learning Director, challenges old ideas of professional learning in the Learning Forward Journal’s August issue. In her piece, “Professional Learning Isn’t About Hours”, Dr. Brown raises a critical point about the outdated Carnegie Unit. Originally established in 1906, the credit hour measures student…
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…
The end of the academic year usually brings a collective exhale of relief at colleges and universities. Today the education sector is stunned and disappointed. In two Supreme Court decisions – rooted in ideology, not reality – six conservative justices struck down affirmative action in higher education. Dismantling affirmative action…
Valeria Brown, Carnegie’s Future of Learning Director, has authored a thoughtful piece titled “Are We Really Centering Students in Professional Learning?”. In this article, Val explores the educational challenges faced by students during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a loss of connection with their schools. In reflecting on her own…
We are thrilled to introduce the 2023 Global Leadership Program Cohort—a group of twenty outstanding African Leadership University students who embody the passion and drive to make a significant impact on the global community! Now in its second year, the Global Leadership Program will run from July 16th to August…
By Carnegie Foundation, American Council on Eduacation’s Mushtaq Gunja and Sara Gast
The American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching today unveiled a new website as part of their efforts to reimagine the Carnegie Classifications and modernize the nation’s leading framework for grouping institutions of higher education.
Permanent link to page: https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/blog/new-website-creates-modern-user-friendly-approach-to-utilizing-the-carnegie-classifications/
