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Title
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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Abstract/Description
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The mission of the Carnegie Foundation is to catalyze transformational change in education so that every student has the opportunity to live a healthy, dignified, and fulfilling life.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was chartered by an act of Congress in 1906. Since then, it has pioneered a broad range of transformative advancements in K–12 and higher education, including the creation of the Carnegie Unit; TIAA; standards for schools of law, medicine, education, and engineering; Educational Testing Service; the GRE; Pell Grants; the Carnegie Classifications; the U.S. Department of Education; and the use of improvement science to build the field’s capacity to improve.
Today, the Carnegie Foundation has set its sights on tackling the nation’s most significant educational challenge: achieving educational equity for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian and Pacific Islander, and first-generation students, as well as those from low-income households. Carnegie will leverage its expertise, assets, partnerships, convening power, and social and reputational capital to address longstanding educational inequities that impede economic mobility and exacerbate racial inequality.
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[Excerpted from the Carnegie Foundation's "About Us" webpage]
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Entity type
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Institution/Foundation
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IRE Approach/Concept
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Improvement Science
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Networked Improvement Community (NIC)
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Citation
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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. (n.d.). Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/
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