{"id":1631,"date":"2024-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:07:25","slug":"a-new-architecture-for-education-may-2024-carnegie-foundation-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/a-new-architecture-for-education-may-2024-carnegie-foundation-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Architecture for Education: May 2024 Carnegie Foundation Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Below is Carnegie President Timothy Knowles\u2019s opening to our May 2024 newslett<\/strong><\/em>er. Join our mailing list for additional resources and recommended reads<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, I had the pleasure of being part of a fireside chat with Russlynn Ali (CEO, XQ Institute) and Tom Vander Ark (CEO, Getting Smart). In the session, Russlynn reminded us the time is now to join together to transform secondary schooling, and those who engage, invest, and advocate will be the authors of the next century\u2019s breakthroughs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am convinced Russlynn is right. We are at a catalytic moment. There is immense demand to reimagine education across the nation. The pandemic created urgency to move beyond the status quo. Tens of thousands of students, parents, educators and employers have developed \u2018portraits of a graduate\u2019 that focus on both the knowledge and skills we know<\/em> matter for success in school, work and life. Technology is (at last!) at a stage where it can support more ambitious modes of teaching, learning and assessment. And record-level student absenteeism and teacher shortages are unequivocal reminders that the time for transformation has come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To meet this moment \u2013 and make education a much more powerful engine for economic opportunity \u2013 we need a new education architecture that does not conflate seat time with learning<\/a>. Rather, we need an architecture that catalyzes true competency-based learning at persuasive scale, ensuring millions more young people have the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills they need to thrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With XQ, and collaborators from across the nation, we are intent on building this architecture. At a high level, we think it will be defined by three things: <\/p>\n\n\n\n