Teaching Profession News in Brief

Carnegie Selects Prominent Scholar as New President

By Vaishali Honawar — January 15, 2008 1 min read
  • Save to favorites
  • Print

Anthony S. Bryk, a nationally known education researcher, has been named the next president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Mr. Bryk will take up his new position with the Stanford, Calif.-based research and policy foundation in August. He is a professor of organizational studies in education and business at Stanford University, where he has focused on such issues as the organizational redesign of schools and school systems, and the integration of technology into schooling to enhance teaching and learning.

David S. Tatel, the chairman of the Carnegie Foundation’s board and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, called Mr. Bryk a “perfect match” for the foundation. He “has a tremendous ability to think and act across disciplines and to bring together theory and practice,” Judge Tatel added.

Mr. Bryk, meanwhile, said he believes teachers need to be prepared to work and live in a global society.

“Larger social, economic, and technology forces are calling us to reinvent schooling,” he said in a statement, adding: “What is needed is a serious transformation in the ways we develop and support our teachers, the tools, materials, ideas, and evidence with which they work, and the organizational and institutional contexts in which all of this occurs.”

In 1988, Mr. Bryk, who was then a professor of urban education at the University of Chicago, founded the Center for School Improvement there with the goal of producing leaders for the public school system.

He also created the Consortium on Chicago School Research, a federation of Chicago-area research organizations whose goal is to put pressure on school leaders through research that showed which reforms work and which don’t.

Mr. Bryk has written several books on education, including Catholic Schools and the Common Good and Trust in Schools.

He will succeed Lee S. Shulman, who has led the foundation since 1997.

A version of this article appeared in the January 16, 2008 edition of Education Week

Events

Teaching Profession K-12 Essentials Forum New Insights Into the Teaching Profession
Join this free virtual event to get exclusive insights from Education Week's State of Teaching project.
Jobs Virtual Career Fair for Teachers and K-12 Staff
Find teaching jobs and K-12 education jubs at the EdWeek Top School Jobs virtual career fair.
Mathematics K-12 Essentials Forum Helping Students Succeed in Math

EdWeek Top School Jobs

Teacher Jobs
Search over ten thousand teaching jobs nationwide — elementary, middle, high school and more.
View Jobs
Principal Jobs
Find hundreds of jobs for principals, assistant principals, and other school leadership roles.
View Jobs
Administrator Jobs
Over a thousand district-level jobs: superintendents, directors, more.
View Jobs
Support Staff Jobs
Search thousands of jobs, from paraprofessionals to counselors and more.
View Jobs

Read Next

Teaching Profession Opinion My Career Began on a Zoom Screen 5 Years Ago. I Still Fell in Love With Teaching
Public education has become front-page news for all the wrong reasons. That’s not the whole story.
Alicia Simba
4 min read
White birds flying out of a broken cage against a dark sky. A symbol of liberation, escape from restrictions, psychological healing. Optimism.
iStock/Getty
Teaching Profession What the Research Says A Personal 'Nudge' Can Get Teachers to Use Student Data in Smart Ways
Teachers are key to effective ed-tech interventions. A new study looks at ways to engage them.
4 min read
Woman using laptop computer.
A new study found that teachers who received more personalized messages about their students’ progress were more likely to review and use student data.
Getty Images Plus
Teaching Profession Crayon Color Picker and Tornado: Teachers Share the Funniest Jobs Students Want
A new generation of students wants new types of jobs. Some of their responses might surprise you.
1 min read
Photo illustration of crayon without a name.
iStock + Education Week
Teaching Profession Opinion Larry Ferlazzo's 6 Reasons Why He Stayed at His School
Why leave a high school where the administrators have fostered a supportive environment and made teaching fulfilling?
5 min read
Conceptual illustration of classroom conversations and fragmented education elements coming together to form a cohesive picture of a book of classroom knowledge.
Sonia Pulido for Education Week