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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»
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.
Knowledge Media Lab
The Knowledge Media Laboratory (KML) uses new media and emerging technologies to exchange information, share knowledge and produce innovations that can transform teaching and learning. KML projects include: the Gallery of Teaching and Learning, the Teaching and Learning Commons, and the KEEP Toolkit.
Spotlight

CASE, Carnegie Name Top Professors of the Year
Four college and university educators who actively involve their undergraduate students in hands-on research are the national winners of the 2008 U.S. Professors of the Year Awards.
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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
Announcements

Digital Media, Learning & Education
Carnegie has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Digital Media, Learning & Education 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 initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life.
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Carnegie Vice President Pat Hutchings and Senior Scholar Mary Huber edited the latest edition of the journal, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, which includes articles by former Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) scholars.
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