The Core Knowledge Blog

There’s a new sheriff at the influential Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and it would seem to presage a closer focus on K-12 education. Anthony S. Bryk was named earlier this month to run the California-based foundation. Education Week describes him as someone with “a strong national reputation as a precollegiate education researcher,” having helped found the Center for Urban School Improvement in Chicago, which now runs charter schools there.

Bryk also won the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Scholarship in 2003. His reform credentials are further burnished by by Thomas Toch of Education Sector, who tells Ed Week, “he is an inspired choice. He has a gift for recognizing important research questions before others do, and for finding creative ways to examine important questions.”