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.
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September 27, 2013 September 25, 2013 Carnegie Cost Calculator: A Tool for Exploring the Cost of Educator Evaluation Systems
The Carnegie Foundation has developed the Carnegie Cost Calculator to help district leaders and members of the broader K-12 community understand and estimate time and financial resources involved in evaluation.
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.
August 5, 2013 Giving Credit Where Credit’s Due: A 50-State Scan of Course Credit Policies
The scan explores K-12 credit policies in all 50-states and the District of Columbia to better understand which states define credit based solely on seat-time and which allow districts to define credit more flexibly.
July 31, 2013 Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network Announces 2013 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Recipients
The Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network has named Jeff Kosovich, Brett Peters, and Stephanie Reeves as pre-doctoral fellows for 2013-2014.
July 31, 2013 Learning Our Way Into a Better System
At Carnegie’s Pathways National Forum faculty members, administrators, institutional research staff, and education researchers gathered to continue their efforts to reclaim the mathematical lives of students who place into developmental mathematics.
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.
June 11, 2013 Accelerating Learning about Practices That Support More Productive Student Mindsets
White paper, Improvement Research Carried Out Through Networked Communities: Accelerating Learning about Practices that Support More Productive Student Mindsets, explores improvement science as a way to address problems facing educators.
May 31, 2013 Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Teacher Evaluations
Districts are dedicating increasing human and financial resources to teacher evaluations, but finding enough time remains an issue. Three major trends have emerged as differentiation has become an increasingly popular option.
May 28, 2013 The Carnegie Unit – Revisited
The current use of the Carnegie Unit was never the intent when it was first created. The Carnegie Foundation is embarking on an initiative to revisit the Carnegie Unit.
May 22, 2013 Continuous Improvement Methodology Holds Promise for Real Change in Education
In this white paper, the authors draw on examples that illustrate how continuous quality improvement methodology is being applied in education toward the goals of making education more efficient, effective, and equitable.
May 3, 2013 New Report on Productive Persistence: Pathways to Improvement
In the Pathways, Carnegie is testing a set of strategies to help students persist and succeed academically. This report examines this kind of persistence, called Productive Persistence, which is addressing the alarming student failure rates.
April 22, 2013 Carnegie Project to Examine Improvement Networks
Carnegie has selected two organizations to work with to better understand the work practices of networks that are deliberately organized to improve teaching and learning in schools, colleges, and other places where people learn.
March 14, 2013 Carnegie Program Achieves Dramatic Success for Community College Students in Developmental Mathematics
The results from the first year of Community College Pathways Program, the 2011-2012 academic year, show a dramatic rate of success for students enrolled in developmental mathematics. Learn how Pathways is achieving these impressive results.
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