The president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Ernest L. Boyer, discusses the importance of developing creativity in the classroom. (MD)

The services that have been provided by colleges and universities in the United States and the current confusion regarding the role of American higher education are reviewed. Among the contributions made by higher education are: extending higher learning to new classes of people, advancing the nation's frontiers, providing scientific expertise…

This presentation revisited the Carnegie Foundation report, "Scholarship Reconsidered," which discussed faculty roles and rewards, and outlined the framework for the follow-up report "Scholarship Assessed." (SM)

Summarizes the Carnegie Foundation president's September 1987 speech concerning this generations's most urgent task--rebuilding the nation's schools. Warns that today's teachers may have gained in competency and responsibility, but not in empowerment to shape curricula, plan inservice programs, or shape student retention and special education…

The president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching applauds the push for educational excellence but believes local school personnel are too rarely considered in the reform process. He suggests ways of granting teachers and principals the support and recognition they need to participate effectively in educational improvement.…

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's report on governance and institutional autonomy ("The Control of the Campus") is outlined, touching on issues in the government-college relationship, budgets and state and institutional prerogatives, litigation, anecdotal evidence of government interference, the schools' responsibilities,…

The author of The Carnegie Foundation's "High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America" outlines four strategies for improving educational quality: (1) a coherent vision of educational objectives, (2) renewed emphasis on writing and thinking skills, (3) a core of common learning, and (4) strong school leadership at the local…

The excerpt from the Carnegie Report stresses the need for a more inclusive definition of a scholar; recognition that knowledge is acquired through research, synthesis, practice, and teaching; use of "creativity contracts" that broaden, individualize, and give continuity to faculty careers; and aggressive support of teaching in research…

The five chapters in this monograph discuss current issues in general education. Chapter I examines the weakness of general education programming, comparing general education to a spare room that has no agreed upon function. Chapter II notes the recent surge of interest in general education; examines the variety of social and educational problems…

The performance of the American high school as an institution is discussed, based on a study of U.S. secondary education conducted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Attention is directed to students, teachers, the principal, the classroom, and the curricula. Field studies were conducted at 15 public high schools, which…

Shortly before his death in December 1995, Dr. Ernest Boyer (former President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachers); working in consultation with his wife, Kay, developed a list of speeches from his Carnegie years that touched on several of the abiding principles underpinning his work. Many of the speeches chosen for this…

This report on the professoriate in American higher education explores how the use of faculty time is rewarded and, especially, what activities of the professoriate are most highly prized. Changes in the work of higher education institutions through the years--its movement from teaching to service and then research, are noted, as are conflicts…

This report examines the problems and possibilities of architecture education as it has evolved in the United States and proposes a new framework for renewing architecture education and practice. In order to assess the need for reform in architecture education, students and alumni from 15 representative campuses were surveyed as to whether they…

Noting that academic failure begins early and that the focus of school reform should be at the elementary level, this book describes the Basic School, an idea based on best practice in elementary education. A Basic School pushes school reform back to the first years of formal education; gives priority to language and suggests a coherent core of…

This report examines the results of an international study of higher education systems, based on surveys of approximately 1,000 faculty in each of the following nations: United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Israel, and Australia. Findings are organized around seven…