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On April 24, 2025, the Carnegie Foundation and ACE announced a redesigned system, including a revision of the historic Basic Classification and introduction of the Student Access and Earnings Classification.More
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In this New York Times article, Ginia Bellafante writes about the roadblock mathematics poses for students in community college. The piece focuses on LaGuardia Community College. LaGuardia’s president Gail Mellow is a Carnegie Board member. Carnegie’s math pathways are featured. Bellafante writes: What makes algebra so hard for community college…
What if school districts could speed up and slow down research at the same time? The 86,000-student Austin, Texas, district is part of an unusual research partnership intended to solve school-level problems quickly, while also helping school leaders and policymakers step back and take the time to study how day-to-day…
On May 28, 2014, the Carnegie Foundation hosted a webinar that featured a panel of district leaders and teachers from the School District of Menomonee Falls who discussed how they balanced a commitment to quality improvement in the classroom with state-level initiatives such as teacher evaluation and student learning objectives.…
This report finds that new teachers leave the profession in large numbers mostly because they don’t get the support they need. Comprehensive induction can improve retention and new teacher performance, but it is rarely provided.
This white paper refines and provides evidentiary support for a human capital system framework composed of four subsystems that ideally work together to build a stronger teacher workforce.