{"id":2646,"date":"2012-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/carnegie-rethinking-the-unit\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:49:32","slug":"carnegie-rethinking-the-unit","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/carnegie-rethinking-the-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Rethinking the Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2543\" style=\"width: 103px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-1.28.48-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2543    \" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-12-05 at 1.28.48 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-1.28.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Carnegie; carnegie<br \/>foundation.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Carnegie Foundation is taking a look at the Carnegie Unit? Yep, it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching<\/a> announced that it has received nearly a half million dollars from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hewlett.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation<\/a> \u201cto support research on the Carnegie Unit and its role\u2014past, present, and future\u2014in American education\u201d.\u00a0 They explain, \u201cIt is time to consider how a revised unit, based on competency rather than time, could improve teaching and learning in high schools, colleges, and universities\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThat\u2019s interesting\u2026Why aren\u2019t they thinking about elementary schools? We have examples of competency-based learning taking place across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully they will expand their thinking beyond the historical development of the Carnegie unit to think about competency education as a model to replace the time-based system and the \u201cunit\u201d as a container of learning.<\/p>\n<p>It will be great to see CFAT deconstruct how the Carnegie unit has been woven into almost every fiber of the education system. The harder part will be designing something that can be really meaningful for our students, teachers, and schools going forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/about-us\/staff\/thomas-toch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Toch<\/a>, a Carnegie senior managing partner, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/about-us\/staff\/elena-silva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Elena Silva<\/a>, a senior associate for research and policy, will lead the project.<\/p>\n<p>Here is link to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/college_bound\/2012\/12\/new_research_to_examine_revision_of_carnegie_unit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed Week article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mapsvg_location":""},"legacy_category":[],"issue":[377,442],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2646","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-state-policy","issue-base-learning-on-mastery-not-seat-time"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carnegie Rethinking the Unit - Aurora Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/carnegie-rethinking-the-unit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carnegie Rethinking the Unit - Aurora Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wow. 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