Sharper Focus on K-12 Expected After Shift at Carnegie
After focusing deeply on higher education and professional development over the past decade, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching appears poised to dig deeper into the challenges faced by K-12 schools, under a new president with a strong national reputation as a precollegiate education researcher.
Anthony S. Bryk, a researcher at Stanford University named Jan. 9 to lead the century-old nonprofit research and policy organization, built his reputation in part by leading an ongoing research program in Chicago to produce accessible studies on efforts to improve that city’s public schools.
Mr. Bryk, who is slated to start in his new post in August, has already signaled that one of his priorities at Carnegie, located on the Stanford campus in California, will be to arm teachers and students with both the knowledge and technology they need to live and work...
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