{"id":1041,"date":"2025-06-18T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:10:32","slug":"new-national-effort-aims-to-build-the-future-of-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/new-national-effort-aims-to-build-the-future-of-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"New National Effort Aims to Build the Future of High School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carnegie Foundation launches \u201cFuture of High School Network\u201d with 24 innovative school systems across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STANFORD, CA<\/strong> \u2014 June 18, 2025 \u2014 Today, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced the launch of the Future of High School Network<\/a> (FHS Network), a new initiative designed to catalyze learning, knowledge and impact to support a \u2018new architecture\u2019 for high school nationwide. The FHS Network brings together 24 school systems serving approximately 90,000 students, all committed to creating high schools that prepare students for success beyond graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor more than a century, the Carnegie Unit has defined the structure of American high schools with the conflation of seat time and learning,\u201d said Dr. Timothy Knowles, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. \u201cToday, we\u2019re partnering with a fearless group of forward-leaning school systems across the country to imagine and instantiate education without the constraints of the Carnegie Unit. The Future of High School Network is about understanding and growing new models for the American high school\u2014that set ambitious goals for students, offer meaningful, rigorous and engaging learning experiences, and use improved tools to measure and accelerate student progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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This effort is supported by leading national institutions, including the XQ Institute, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, Youth Thriving Through Learning Fund, and Carnegie Corporation of New York as well as partners at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Together, the network members will work to modernize current outdated systems and scale competency-based high school models designed to accelerate student engagement, achievement and success in postsecondary education and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Network will also serve as a test bed to inform the Carnegie Foundation\u2019s forthcoming National Research and Development Agenda<\/a>\u2014a comprehensive effort to define the research and development priorities needed to advance effective high school transformation across the country. Ongoing insights from participating systems will help identify the conditions necessary for innovative models to take root, sustain and scale in high schools nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToo many high schools were built for a world that no longer exists,\u201d said Diego Arambula, Vice President for Educational Transformation, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.\u201c This Network, in tandem with our National Research and Development Agenda, will focus on building and refining what comes next, together with communities, educators, and most importantly, students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inaugural network represents leaders from public school districts and charter school networks across urban, suburban, and rural regions of the country:<\/p>\n\n\n\n