Lesson Study the Carnegie Way: Sharing Ideas for Continuous Improvement
Carnegie has launched Lesson Study within the Pathways to help faculty share ideas across the network and improve the teaching of Statway and Quantway.
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March 9, 2012 March 1, 2012 Too Many Students in Remedial Classes?
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…
February 9, 2012 Learning Opportunities: Productive Struggle, Explicit Connections and Deliberate Practice
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…
February 9, 2012 Community Colleges in the News
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…
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.…
January 17, 2012 Juggling student access and success
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…
January 17, 2012 Exploring Learning Opportunities
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;…
December 7, 2011 A Hub by Any Other Name
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…
December 6, 2011 Learning From Practice to Improve Practice
In a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association of Community College Trustees in Dallas recently, Carnegie President Tony Bryk outlined for the Trustees how Carnegie is using improvement research in our work to improve the success rate of students in developmental math. “We need to rethink how…
November 14, 2011 Pathways Update: Good News from the Campuses
Good News from the Campuses We now have 30 colleges participating in our two networked improvement communities—22 in Statway™ and eight in Quantway™. There are 1200 students enrolled in 60 sections of Statway™, and Quantway goes live in classroom beginning in January. Over 80 faculty members are now network members,…
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…
September 29, 2011 There Is More to College Success Than Test Scores and Lesson Plans: Carnegie’s Focus on “Productive Persistence”
Why do some college students persist while others don’t? David Levin asked this question about the alumni of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)—a network of urban charter schools. Instead of focusing on students’ test scores or college professors’ instructional styles, he found something different. Students who were successful “were…
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…
July 1, 2011 Fong, Treisman are part of new commission
New National Commission To Help Reshape the Future of Community Colleges Association Leader Says Effort Will Address Hard Choices, Embrace Innovation WASHINGTON, D.C. – For only the third time in their 110-year history, community colleges are preparing to take a holistic look at their broad and continuously evolving mission with…
June 29, 2011 HOW WEB VIDEO POWERS GLOBAL INNOVATION
TED’s Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness.
June 9, 2011 A Brief History of the Quantitative Literacy Movement
Background Information for Faculty Arithmetic and Algebra Skills Aren’t Enough Any More! “Despite its occasional use as a euphemism for statistics in school curricula, quantitative literacy is not the same as statistics. Neither is it the same as mathematics, nor is it (as some fear) watered-down mathematics. Quantitative literacy is…
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