Reforms with Promise
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.
Topic: Developmental Math
May 2, 2012 March 22, 2012 Rapid Hub Analytics: A Focus on Continuous Improvement
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.
March 9, 2012 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.
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…
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 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…
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,…
June 9, 2011 Learning by Doing: Building a Networked Improvement Community
A concrete way to learn how a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) might organize and carry out a better program of educational R&D is to build one. In this spirit, the Carnegie Foundation in partnership with several other colleagues and institutions, is now initiating a prototype NIC aimed at addressing the…
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.
October 6, 2009 Transfer from Two-year to Four-year College Complicated
This month’s “Progress of Education Reform” report from the Education Commission of the States delves into a big issue for this sector education, transfer and articulation.
August 5, 2009 Addressing Student Success in Developmental Mathematics
During a July convening at Carnegie with representatives from several organizations working on increasing success for community college students in developmental mathematics, participants came up with some tensions that need to be acknowledged and/or addressed. Those include: Increased pressure to increase graduation and completion rates and the desire to get…
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