Dr. Sydnee Dickson and
Aaron Rasmussen join Board of over
100-year old organization amidst historic overhaul of the Carnegie
Unit
STANFORD, Calif., June 20,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching (Carnegie) today announced the addition of
Dr. Sydnee Dickson, Utah State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Aaron Rasmussen, co-founder of MasterClass, to
its Board of Trustees.
"Dr. Dickson's pioneering efforts to scale competency-based
teaching and learning in Utah have
inspired both policymakers and educators nationwide. Aaron's vision
for combining pedagogical innovation with the art of filmmaking has
captivated a generation of lifelong learners," said Timothy F.C. Knowles, president of Carnegie.
"Their appointments reflect a commitment to harnessing the
potential of the most progressive thinkers as we work to create an
entirely new educational architecture."
An educator of over four decades who began her K-12 education in
a two-room schoolhouse in rural Utah, Dr. Dickson was appointed as State
Superintendent in 2016. She is now widely recognized for her
leadership guiding one of the first statewide efforts to implement
personalized, competency-based education.
"The willingness of an organization that has played such a
foundational role in building our educational infrastructure to now
reimagine the core tenets of our education system is inspiring,"
said Dr. Dickson. "I'm eager to bring the Utah experience to the national stage."
A serial entrepreneur and inventor, Aaron Rasmussen co-founded MasterClass, which
fused immersive filmmaking with learning to bring experts like
David Mamet, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Margaret Atwood to more than 2 million learners
worldwide. Rasmussen went on to found Outlier.org, which builds
cinematic-quality college courses that transfer to top four-year
institutions nationwide.
"The Carnegie Foundation's leadership understands the necessity
of thinking beyond the traditional boundaries of our education
system," said Rasmussen. "Advances in AI and computing power offer
tremendous potential and require us to rethink how we measure
educational outcomes to better capture the kind of deep-thinking
and analysis our fast-changing world requires. They're tackling
some of the hardest, most urgent, educational challenges
today."
About the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching
The mission of the Carnegie Foundation is to catalyze
transformational change in education so that every student has the
opportunity to live a healthy, dignified, and fulfilling life.
Enacted by an act of Congress in 1906, the Foundation has a rich
history of driving transformational change in the education sector,
including the establishment of TIAA-CREF and the creation of the
Education Testing Service, the GRE, Pell Grants, and the Carnegie
Classifications for Higher Education.
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