Education

Overview

<div>OUR GOAL: American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be active participants in a robust democracy and to be successful in the global economy.</div> <div>Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas with their associated goals.</div> <div> <p>Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning</p> <ol> <li>Improving systems for preparing, recruiting, and developing teachers and education leaders to serve the needs of diverse learners</li> <li>Promoting alignment in human capital policies and practices at every level, from state- and district-level systems through the classroom</li> <li>Enhancing professional learning for teachers and leaders, including strategic use of emerging technologies</li> <li>Developing and implementing high-quality instructional materials, resources, and tools for teachers and leaders that align with the goal of equity and the vision of rigorous standards</li> </ol> <p> </p><p>New Designs to Advance Learning</p> <ol> <li>Developing new whole school models that can generate evidence proofs of what is possible when school is fundamentally redesigned, including innovation in the use of time, staffing, technology, and financial resources</li> <li>Stimulating the development of tools, technologies, and resources that can catalyze change and transformation within a school</li> <li>Supporting broader, system-level changes to build district and organizational capacity to develop, implement, and sustain new models, and to remove the policy constraints that impede innovation</li> <li>Building knowledge, particularly regarding pockets of effective practice, that could have greater impact if elevated and shared</li> </ol> <p> Public Understanding</p> <ol> <li>Developing new whole school models that can generate evidence proofs of what is possible when school is fundamentally redesigned, including innovation in the use of time, staffing, technology, and financial resources</li> <li>Stimulating the development of tools, technologies, and resources that can catalyze change and transformation within a school</li> <li>Supporting broader, system-level changes to build district and organizational capacity to develop, implement, and sustain new models, and to remove the policy constraints that impede innovation</li> <li>Building knowledge, particularly regarding pockets of effective practice, that could have greater impact if elevated and shared</li> </ol> <p>Pathways to Postsecondary Success</p> <ol> <li>Addressing the lack of alignment in student learning expectations between K-12 and postsecondary education</li> <li>Improving postsecondary education, including through co-requisite and other innovative models</li> <li>Strengthening postsecondary STEM learning, particularly in mathematics</li> </ol> <p> Integration, Learning and Innovation</p> <ol> <li>Addressing the lack of alignment in student learning expectations between K-12 and postsecondary education</li> <li>Improving postsecondary education, including through co-requisite and other innovative models</li> <li>Strengthening postsecondary STEM learning, particularly in mathematics</li> </ol> </div>