A New Approach to Categorizing Colleges
If most people know anything at all about the Carnegie Classifications—and many don’t—it starts and stops with one phrase: R-1. … Read more
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Carnegie Foundation Classifications to Receive Changes
The American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Carnegie Foundation) are making changes … Read more
Colleges are ditching the SAT. The high school transcript should be next.
Laurie Gagnon is program director of the CompetencyWorks initiative at the Aurora Institute, a national education nonprofit. In recent years, … Read more
Credit Hours Are a Relic of the Past. How States Must Disrupt High School — Now
In 1906, the Carnegie Unit, or credit hour, was introduced to standardize U.S. public education. It defined the precise number … Read more
Panel Dives into Social Mobility
As Americans express increasing skepticism about the value of higher education, how much colleges contribute to social mobility has come into the … Read more
Time ≠ Learning — Tim Knowles on Scrapping the Carnegie Unit
In the early 1900s, the nation’s civic leaders launched a full court press to make secondary education — previously offered to … Read more
Build Your Own High School: Phoenix Students Choose from 500 Classes, Internships, College Courses, Career Programs & More
Yaritza Dominguez glanced at her car’s odometer, which was showing one of those numbers that sticks in a person’s memory: … Read more
Tim Knowles and Amit Sevak on What To Do with the Carnegie Unit
Are you interested in attending one of the field’s largest gatherings of K-12 education innovators? The Aurora Institute Symposium 2023 … Read more
Every State Now Lets Schools Measure Students’ Success Based on Mastery, Not Seat Time
Wyoming students may soon see the end of their school system as they know it. In April, the state’s board … Read more
The Soft Skills “Debate” Is Over
The rapid infusion of AI into almost every aspect of our working world, from health care to manufacturing to design, … Read more
