June 15, 2021
Tim Talks With Janice Jackson
Carnegie President Timothy Knowles talks with Senior Fellow Dr. Janice Jackson, formerly of Chicago Public Schools, about education, equity, and the future of learning in a post-pandemic school system.
Topic: Equity & Social Justice
March 9, 2017
Oakland Unified Improvement Measures as Diverse as Schools Themselves
A school performance framework in California’s Oakland Unified School District gives schools a multi-faceted and detailed look at where they need to improve based on more than a dozen measures of both academic achievement and the culture and climate of the school.
January 31, 2017
How a Networked Improvement Community Improved Success Rates for Struggling College Math Students
When a 2010 study found dismal success rates in college developmental math, the Carnegie Foundation formed a network of experts to address the problem guided by improvement science. This narrative tells how the process led to a new remedial program with stunning results.
January 15, 2017
The Fierce Urgency of Now: A Reflection on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call to Action and Educational Equity
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of the fierce urgency of now as an immediate call to action for social justice. The phrase and meaning behind must be thoroughly and thoughtfully applied to educational equity, writes UCLA education professor Louis Gomez.
November 7, 2016
The Potential of Networked Improvement to Address Systemic Educational Inequity
Networked Improvement Communities may hold the key to ending decades of educational inequity that have resisted most other efforts at reform.
April 21, 2016
Empathy and Social Justice: The Power of Proximity in Improvement Science
In his 2016 Carnegie Summit keynote, Bryan Stevenson reminded us of the power of getting "proximate" to suffering to deepen understanding. This blog post explores how this relates to the first core principle of improvement.
February 24, 2016
Quality and Equality in American Education: Systemic Problems, Systemic Solutions
Disparities within K-12 education are the product of institutional structures and cultures that both disenfranchise certain groups of students and depress quality overall. As these inequalities have systemic causes, systemic are solutions required.