Anthony S. Bryk ’70
President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

As a field, education has frequently failed to learn from its own experience. Time after time, promising reforms fall short of their goals, abandoned in the pursuit of other attractive ideas. In this talk, Anthony Bryk will argue for a new approach to improvement. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slowly,” educators should adopt a more rigorous approach that allows us to “learn fast to implement well.”

Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, Bryk will demonstrate how a process of disciplined inquiry can use networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. As he sees it, “networked improvement communities” can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning and effectively address such seemingly entrenched problems as the high rate of failure among students in community college remedial math courses.

The talk will offer a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation’s schools and colleges.

A reception will follow the presentation.

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