For more than a century, the American high school has been shaped by the Carnegie unit. Well, Tim Knowles, the 10th president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is intent on ...

Educators, philanthropists, and all kinds of advocates have been trying to reinvent high school for decades, with little success. Now, the Carnegie Foundation and Educational Testing Service (ETS) ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

Rick: The Educational Testing Service and the Carnegie Foundation announced this spring they’re “teaming up” to ditch the Carnegie Unit, the century-old measure of coursetaking that’s done so much to ...

In 1993, the Carnegie Foundation’s then-president, Ernest Boyer, pointed out the dysfunctional impact of the traditional Carnegie Unit in that it tended to fragment the learning experience and ...

The Carnegie Unit is, in my view, partly responsible for that. In the 1950s, over 90% of young people would [end up] better off than their parents. That number is basically cut in half now. We’re ...

STANFORD, Calif. and PRINCETON, N.J., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and ETS today announced a new partnership designed to radically transform ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carnegie Learning announced today its commitment to a new National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to build a Learner Data Institute that will harness the power of ...

On Tuesday, I talked with Tim Knowles, the CEO of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, about replacing the century-old Carnegie unit of seat time with a mastery-based measurement ...