Education - Program or Curriculum Development or Provision

Overview

<div>The goal of the Education program is: "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." Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas.</div> <ol> <li>Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning: For improving systems of preparing, recruiting, and developing teachers and education leaders to serve the needs of diverse learners; promoting alignment in human capital policies and practices across the system; enhancing professional learning for teachers and leaders, including through technology; and developing and implementing high-quality instructional materials, resources, and tools for teachers and leaders</li> <li>New Designs to Advance Learning: For developing whole school models that provide more effective learning environments for diverse learners; stimulating the development of tools, technologies, and resources that enable school transformation; expanding capacity and removing policy constraints to enable new models; and building knowledge related to the design of the student experience</li> <li>Public Understanding: For supporting research on strategies that can drive parent and family engagement in education; tools and resources to help parents understand and support the learning progress of their children; increasing productive dialogue among parents, students, and educators, and other stakeholders; and moving public discourse forward regarding important shifts in the educational landscape</li> <li>Pathways to Postsecondary Success: For improving alignment in student learning expectations between K-12 and postsecondary education; improving postsecondary education, including through co-requisite and other innovative models; and strengthening postsecondary STEM learning, particularly in mathematics</li> <li>Integration, Learning, and Innovation: For advancing integrated approaches across the Corporation's portfolios and the field that enable greater collaboration, coherence, and dynamism; improving learning, including continuous improvement and knowledge generation, management, and dissemination; and stimulating innovative ideas and models that inform our work across the Education Program and increase our impact</li> </ol>