Rapid, Responsive Research—The 90-Day Cycle Handbook
The 90-Day Cycle has emerged as an invaluable method for supporting improvement. The Handbook serves as a guide to the purpose and methods of this disciplined and structured form of inquiry.
Category: Thinking about Improvement
September 27, 2013 August 26, 2013 A Human Capital Framework for a Stronger Teacher Workforce
Human capital is the largest single investment that K-12 districts make to influence student outcomes. A Human Capital Framework for a Stronger Teacher Workforce presents a framework to build a stronger teacher workforce.
August 22, 2013 An Approach to Productive Feedback for Teachers
The Carnegie Foundation's latest brief, Strategies for Enhancing the Impact of Post-observation Feedback for Teachers, examines the struggle to use post-observation conversations effectively to support and develop teachers.
August 8, 2013 A Third Way of Bringing Research into Practice
In a recent New York Times Sunday Review article, Clinton Leaf questioned the effectiveness of traditional clinical drug trials. We argue that improvement science is an alternative, effective research method.
June 26, 2013 Access to Data as Part of Improvement Strategy
While articles focus on access and privacy of data, what needs to be explored is how to utilize increasing access to individualized, longitudinal data to improve student outcomes and decisions making.
August 28, 2012 Tough’s Book Supports Carnegie Work in Productive Persistence
Paul Tough’s book “How Children Succeed” highlights the impact of noncognitive skills, like persistence, self-control, curiosity, grit and self-confidence, on student success.
January 17, 2012 Lesson Study Revisited
You might find this article about lesson study from The Hechinger Report interesting. Carnegie is using lesson study, not exactly in the way outlined in this article, but to improve our mathematics pathways. Statway and Quantway faculty teams at each community college site will be organized into lesson study groups.…
October 11, 2011 What We Need in Education is More Integrity (and Less Fidelity) of Implementation
For many years, educational researchers have worked with program designers and implementers in pursuit of what has been called fidelity of implementation. Simply put, this has involved the application of numerous tools and procedures designed to ensure that implementers replicate programs exactly as they were designed and intended. There is…
July 8, 2011 Mathematics and Democracy and What We Know
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…
March 16, 2011 Finding the Right Fit: Reflections on the Use of Improvement Research in Education
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…
January 5, 2011 90–Day Cycles and Improvement Research
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…
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.
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.
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