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
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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
Evolving with the Times: A Q&A on the New Carnegie Classifications
After 50+ years, the Carnegie Classifications system, a tool that categorizes U.S. colleges and universities (degree-granting), is undergoing significant changes … Read more
Diving Deep: Examining Innovations in Food Security and Affordable Healthcare
Following the successful launch of the 2023 Global Leadership Program (GLP), student participants continued to immerse themselves in the Silicon Valley … 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
Reflections from One Year of the Carnegie Learning Leadership Network
“I feel good knowing there is a community of folks from around the country who are facing similar problems in … Read more
Beyond the Clock: How Do We Measure and Define Professional Learning?
Dr. Valeria Brown, Carnegie Foundation’s Future of Learning Director, challenges old ideas of professional learning in the Learning Forward Journal’s … Read more
On the Right Track: Fueling Student Success with Real-Time Data
Dan Carragher, principal of Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy in Colorado Springs, has a very simple leadership philosophy: “Do what’s best … Read more
Revolutionizing K-12 Learning: The Rise of Innovative Models in Student-Centered Education
The Council of Chief State School Officers’ new report, Imagining More: How State Education Agencies Can Modernize the K-12 Education System … Read more
