A Course and So Much More
The Carnegie Foundation has launched two pathways, Statway and Quantway, to help students succeed in developmental mathematics. Statway and Quantway are more than courses, they are entire new instructional systems.
The Carnegie Foundation has launched two pathways, Statway and Quantway, to help students succeed in developmental mathematics. Statway and Quantway are more than courses, they are entire new instructional systems.
Carnegie is launching the Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network, a National Science Foundation funded project that aims to coordinate the efforts of researchers interested in leveraging their own research expertise to improve the Carnegie Pathways.
The Carnegie Foundation is adopting improvement research methods and learning from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to address the gap between what is known and what happens daily in practice.
The recent American Association of Community Colleges 21st-Century Commission recommends having a goal to increase completion rates by 50 percent by 2020. Carnegie's work on developmental mathematics suggests we can achieve even more.
Statway is continuing to show early signs of success. 88% of students who passed the first term of Statway have enrolled in the second term and will earn college credit with its completion.
Complete College America's report, “Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge to Nowhere," examines how of the two million students who are enrolled in community college less than one in 10 students graduate within three years.
The Carnegie Foundation has launched a national network of 27 community colleges and three universities dedicated to helping students at the greatest risk of failure in math which is showing promising results.
Carnegie is developing an information system that integrates real-time faculty and student data with institutional records to inform continuous improvement for the Pathways network.
Carnegie has launched Lesson Study within the Pathways to help faculty share ideas across the network and improve the teaching of Statway and Quantway.
Two new studies from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College found that more community college students are in remedial education classes than need be. The studies found that more than a quarter of the students assigned to remedial classes based on placement test scores could have…
If you were able to participate in the webinar, “It’s Not Just the Curriculum: Developing Pathways for Student Success in Community Colleges,” in January, you heard that Carnegie’s work in developmental mathematics in community colleges — the Statway™ and Quantway™ pathways — is not just another curriculum product or educational…
You might be interested in the release of a couple of reports on community colleges and a news article on the budget situation in California and how community colleges are affected. OPEN-DOOR POLICIES AT TWO-YEAR COLLEGES FACE THREAT, REPORT SAYS The nation’s college-completion agenda may be threatening open-door admissions policies at two-year institutions, says…
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.…
An article by the Associated Press examines the way California community college leaders are struggling with the competing demands of student access and success. CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEADERS CALL FOR OVERHAUL California community college leaders have signed off on major policy changes aimed at boosting graduation and transfer rates in…
This video showcases a panel discussion on learning opportunities from the Quantway™ and Statway™ 2011 Summer Institute. Hosted by Kay Merseth of the Carnegie Foundation and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the panelists include: Jim Stigler, Carnegie Foundation, UCLA; Uri Treisman, Charles A. Dana Center, U. of Texas, Austin;…
Joshua Glazer visited Carnegie recently to talk about ideas outlined in an article, “Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement,” that was published in the Journal of Educational Change. Glazer is with The Rothschild Foundation in Jerusalem and his co-author Donald Peurach is with the School of Education at…
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