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Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education." More»
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
We live in extraordinary times. A combination of economic, social and technological changes now challenges the historic foundation of the "one best system" of public education.
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The Future of Education Research
Carnegie President Anthony S. Bryk’s speech at a Nov. 19th American Enterprise Institute event in Washington, D.C. is now available online.
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From Special Occasion to Regular Work: A Different Way to Think About Professional Development
By Pat Hutchings

In this month's Perspectives, Carnegie Vice President Pat Hutchings argues that “professional development” should not be a separate or special occasion but an integral feature of the way educators do their work everyday.
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2008 Community Engagement Classification
One hundred and nineteen (119) institutions were successfully classified in the new round of the elective classification.
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A Different Way to Think About Developmental Education
A Different Way to Think About Developmental EducationA set of new reports and products examining the teaching and learning challenges that face development education based on the Carnegie/Hewlett initiative Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC).


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Change
Change Magazine

Change has a new website.
www.changemag.org
Digital Media and Learning

Carnegie has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant to conduct and evaluate a series of meetings to build the field of digital media and learning.

The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations. The initiative is both marshaling what is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth.
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