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In the News (Mon 6 Jul 09)

  
  ETS Conference Celebrated the Centennial of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
ETS Conference Celebrated the Centennial of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
While marking a centennial anniversary of teaching and educational excellence, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, joined ETS in convening the "Improving Quality and Equity in Education: Inspiring a New Century of Excellence in Teaching and Assessment" conference on June 1-2.
Lee Shulman, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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  The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The foundation was organized by Henry S. Pritchett who served as president for twenty-four years (1906-1930).
The foundation is a major national and international center for research and policy studies about teaching.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carnegie_Foundation_for_the_Advancement_of_Teaching   (184 words)

  
 Carnegie Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Carnegie Foundation is an organization set up by, and named after, Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American industrial magnate and philanthropist.
It was Carnegie's generous gift of $1.5 million that made it possible to carry out plans for the construction of the Peace Palace in 1903, the year in which it was founded.
The Foundation remains the legal owner of the Peace Palace since the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which is based there along with its library, could not own the building under Dutch law.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carnegie_Foundation   (147 words)

  
 Carnegie Foundation selects U-M for partnership - UM News
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected the University of Michigan as a national, multi-year partner in a project to improve doctoral education at American universities.
Carnegie Senior Scholar Chris Golde explained that the project goals are to support and study experiments in doctoral education with leading graduate programs, and to document and analyze the character of those initiatives.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center in Menlo Park, Calif., founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905.
www.umich.edu /news/Releases/2003/Jan03/r013003.html   (380 words)

  
 Educating for the New World Order by Beverly Eakman, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Behavioral ...
The Camegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) was established in 1905 as a pension fund for college professors.
This allowed the Carnegie Foundation to settle in, as it were, at the federal level and begin setting educational priorities from that vantage point.
Today, CFAT and their proxies in federal and state governments co-control educational research, including three computer banks of test result data including personal, non-academic information, opinions, and attitudes which in 1988-89 were integrated into a supercomputer: the Elementary and Secondary Integrated Data System (ESIDS, since renamed three times).
www.sntp.net /education/CFAT.htm   (1644 words)

  
 Patricia Owen-Smith Completes First Phase Of Research At The Carnegie Academy For The Scholarship Of Teaching
The scholarship of teaching is an emerging field that aims to bring to teaching the recognition and reward afforded to other forms of scholarly work.
Carnegie Scholars serve one-year terms during which they investigate and document work on issues in the teaching and learning of their field.
Andrew Carnegie founded The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1905 "to do all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of teaching." The Foundation is the only advanced study center for teachers in the world and the third-oldest foundation in the nation.
www.emory.edu /OXFORD/Publications/News/carnegie.html   (455 words)

  
 Carnegie Campus Program @ Elon Home Page
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is a national and international center for research and policy studies about teaching.
With a focus on the scholarship of teaching, the Foundation seeks to generate discussion and promulgate sustainable, long-term changes in educational research, policy and practice.
Foundation programs are designed to foster deep, significant, lasting learning for all students and to improve the ability of education to develop students' understanding, skills and integrity.
www.elon.edu /carnegie   (129 words)

  
 SITUATING THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODOLOGICALLY
A collaboration of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Association for Higher Education.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Association for Higher Education, With the cooperation of the National Communication Association.
Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
www.stanford.edu /dept/CTL/Tomprof/postings/387.html   (1606 words)

  
 News & Events - News Releases
Professor Smith teaches at all levels in the Department of Physics at Boston University, from non-major freshman to advanced graduate students, and is academic director of BU's Center for Excellence in Teaching.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is the largest international association of educational institutions, with nearly 2,900 colleges, universities, and independent elementary and secondary schools in 44 countries.
www.bu.edu /phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=336   (426 words)

  
 Center For Teaching Excellence: The Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905, and chartered in 1906 by an Act of Congress, is an independent national and international policy and research center, dedicated to strengthening schools and colleges in America and beyond.
The Teaching Academy is spearheaded by the American Association for Higher Education for the Carnegie Foundation.
Certain elements of the scholarship of teaching are elusive as some faculty regard teaching as the presentation of material for student consumption, with students responsible for their own learning.
www.umt.edu /cte/carnegie   (1219 words)

  
 Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright
Carnegie was exceptional in part because of the scale of his contributions.
Carnegie was also unusual because he supported such a variety of charities.
Carnegie also stood out because some questioned his motivations for constructing libraries and criticized the methods he used to make the fortune that supported his gifts.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/50carnegie/50carnegie.htm   (232 words)

  
 Wabash Math Professor Mike Axtell Named CASTL Scholar
Menlo Park, CA and Crawfordsville, IN–The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College have entered into a collaboration in support of the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the study of liberal education.
CASTL was created by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1998 to establish and refine standards for the critical review of teaching and learning by faculty members in college and university classrooms.
It was this commitment to liberal education that forged the collaboration between The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts.
www.wabash.edu /news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=1113   (775 words)

  
 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education have ...
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education have named Dr. David Hsiung as Professor of the Year in the state of Pennsylvania.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie, "to do all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignity the profession of teaching." The Foundation is the only advanced study center for teachers in the world and the third-oldest foundation in the nation.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is the largest international association of educational institutions, with nearly 2,900 colleges, universities, and independent elementary and secondary schools in 44 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
services.juniata.edu /news/hsiung.htm   (501 words)

  
 Oklahoma Higher Education's Campus E-Clips Newsletter - January 2003
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently named an Oklahoma City Community College math professor the 2002 Oklahoma Professor of the Year.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of teaching." The Foundation is the third-oldest foundation in the nation.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is the largest international association of education institutions, serving more than 3,200 universities, colleges, schools and related organizations in 45 countries.
www.okhighered.org /Newsletter/stories/Archives/01-16-03-occcprofessor.htm   (465 words)

  
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Bosworth received a certificate from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching during ceremonies conducted in his classroom at the Idaho Falls ISU/UI Center for Higher Education, where he teaches two days a week.
Bosworth views his teaching as a twofold moral lesson to the students: to foster a thoughtful and considered outlook on life, and to engender enthusiasm for working in a job one finds to be enjoyable and fulfilling.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, N.J., is devoted to strengthening America's schools and colleges.
www.isu.edu /~boswkenn/isuprofi.html   (544 words)

  
 Carnegie Foundation Perspectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Welcome to the February distribution of Carnegie Perspectives, a series of short commentaries on issues in education from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Across the country, teaching initiatives in higher education are gaining visibility, innovation is on the upswing, and mainstream faculty are consulting the pedagogical literature, looking critically at education in their subjects, researching the ins and outs of student learning in their classrooms, and using what they are discovering to improve their teaching.
Mary Taylor Huber is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she works with the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and Carnegie's Initiatives in Liberal Education.
www.aarweb.org /profession/vtlc/articles/Carnegie02.asp   (1271 words)

  
 Welcome to The Gallery of Teaching and Learning
This Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) Collection shares the thoughtful work of over 30 departments involved in reforming and rethinking doctoral education within their respective disciplines.
This collection from the Carnegie Academy of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL K12) presents teachers' scholarly inquiry into practice as well as some of their successful classroom practices.
Their work on educational transformation, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and teacher and faculty development is meant to inspire new forms of practice, elicit comment, and provide a basis for new knowledge.
gallery.carnegiefoundation.org   (586 words)

  
 Scholarship of Teaching
The Scholarship of Teaching is the scholarly inquiry into the teaching and learning process.
By engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching, faculty marry their knowledge of teaching and pedagogy with their skills as researchers and their knowledge of research design.
Teacher-scholars look critically at their own teaching, often conducting research in their own classrooms, share their findings with others, and engage in scholarly conversations to promote the advancement of teaching.
www.cidd.gwu.edu /research/teach.html   (220 words)

  
 Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie and incorporated in 1906 by an Act of Congress, is an independent institution devoted to strengthening teaching and learning in America's colleges and schools.
Current initiatives include the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a five-year effort to create a scholarship of teaching and learning that will improve the quality of student learning and raise the status of teaching.
In March 2001, the foundation unveiled a 5-year, $3-million initiative to examine how teacher education classes are taught, how prospective teachers learn, and how their learning is evaluated.
www.edutopia.org /php/orgs.php?id=ORG_401309   (141 words)

  
 UNL News Releases 10/8/98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Carnegie Award is the latest in a growing list of teaching awards for May, who earlier this year received one of two systemwide Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Awards from the University of Nebraska.
The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education established the Professors of the Year program in 1981 and works in cooperation with the Carnegie Foundation and higher education associations in its administration.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a policy center in Palo Alto, Calif., is devoted to strengthening America's schools and colleges.
www.unl.edu /pr/1098/10898anews.html   (613 words)

  
 Three professors honored as Carnegie Scholars
The Carnegie awards are given to a diverse community of scholars whose work will advance the profession of teaching and deepen student learning.
With several teaching awards and publications about teaching and learning, she has established an international reputation for her understanding of how to create effective learning environments.
Carnegie Scholars serve one-year terms, during which they investigate and document significant issues in the teaching and learning of their fields.
newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/833.html   (748 words)

  
 GW News Center
The nominees are judged based their on dedication to undergraduate teaching, contribution to undergraduate education in the institution, community, and profession, and support from colleagues and current and former undergraduate students.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was founded in 1905, and is the only advanced-study center for teachers in the world.
Both organizations are dedicated to the advancement of teaching and the recognition of outstanding teachers.
www.gwu.edu /~media/pressrelease.cfm?ann_id=19171   (433 words)

  
 Stanford Professor Lee Shulman to head Carnegie Foundation (10/96)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
An expert on teaching and teacher training, he has focused in his research and writings on the assessment and evaluation of teaching in elementary and secondary schools, as well as on the college and university level.
A five-year research project funded by the Carnegie Corporation that Shulman conducted between 1985 and 1990 contributed directly to the creation of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and the development of portfolio-based performance assessments.
Unlike the Carnegie Corporation, the Carnegie Foundation, founded in 1905, is not a grant-making institution.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/961022shulman.html   (536 words)

  
 Carnegie Chronicle
The central work of the Carnegie Scholars is to create and disseminate examples of the scholarship of teaching and learning that contribute to thought and practice in the field.
The Teaching Academy Campus program, which is coordinated for the Carnegie Foundation by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), is designed for institutions of all types that are prepared to make a public commitment to foster and support the scholarship of teaching and learning on their campuses.
The programs of the Foundation consist of projects and initiatives united by the Foundation's mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of teaching and the cause of education." Foundation scholars share the goal of improving education policy and practice in the United States and abroad.
www.ntlf.com /html/lib/carnegie   (998 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Carnegie to Release New Classifications of Higher Education Institutions"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been engaged in a fundamental reconsideration of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the framework in which institutional diversity in American higher education is commonly described.
Instead of a single classification, the Foundation will release five new classification schemes as well as a revised version of the basic classification for use by the higher education community.
Higher education has changed in the 35 years since the Carnegie Classification's creation, and a single classification is no longer sufficient to represent the diversity of American higher education and the many ways that institutions resemble or differ from one another.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=56380   (272 words)

  
 Carnegie Corporation - Links
(Merrill House, 170 East 64th Street, New York NY 10021-7478) Founded in 1914 by Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education in the field of ethics and international affairs.
The Carnegie Foundation is the owner of the Peace Palace at the Hague, which was founded in 1903 with a gift of over one million dollars from Andrew Carnegie.
Carnegie Hero Funds in Europe, established during 1909–11 in France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and Italy.
www.carnegie.org /sub/links/other.html   (533 words)

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