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Carnegie Foundation Welcomes Diego Arambula as Vice President for Educational Transformation

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Carnegie) today announced that Diego Arambula is joining the organization as vice president for educational transformation.

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  • STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Carnegie) today announced that Diego Arambula is joining the organization as vice president for educational transformation.
  • As vice president at Carnegie, Arambula will build upon this expertise to plan and execute ambitious, actionable strategies that advance Carnegie's mission of catalyzing transformational change in education.
  • "Diego is fiercely committed to engaging, effective, equitable, and experiential learning for students, from Pre-K to postsecondary," said Timothy F.C.
  • Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation.

JCP&L Teams with Sustainable Jersey to Help Local Communities Advance Energy Efficiency Goals

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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MORRISTOWN, N.J., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second consecutive year, FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) subsidiary Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) is teaming with Sustainable Jersey to sponsor the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Fellowship program, which places graduate students with local municipalities and school districts in JCP&L's service area to evaluate and implement projects that help improve the energy performance of their facilities.

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  • The Climate Corps Fellows are compensated through funding provided by sponsoring New Jersey utilities, including JCP&L.
  • "Improving energy efficiency will provide long-term environmental and economic benefits for our communities, and we're proud to welcome the 2022 class of EDF Fellows."
  • In recent years, Climate Corps Fellows in New Jersey have conducted energy audits, developed clean energy action plans and trained local officials on tracking and data management processes for monitoring energy performance.
  • "Providing our municipalities and schools with hands-on help to advance complex climate and sustainable energy projects contributes to progress at the local level and toward the goal of a sustainable New Jersey," said Sustainable Jersey Executive Director Randall Solomon.

Summit Charter Organization Continues to Make Unjustified Claims

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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BOULDER, Colo., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Summit Public Schools, a charter school organization operating schools in California and Oregon, published Pathways to Success: Exploring the Long-Term Outcomes of Alumni from Summit Public Schools in September 2021, detailing the success of its graduates. A review by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley of Arizona State University examines these questionable assertions made about the performance and life satisfaction of Summit graduates.

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  • BOULDER, Colo., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Summit Public Schools, a charter school organization operating schools in California and Oregon, published Pathways to Success: Exploring the Long-Term Outcomes of Alumni from Summit Public Schools in September 2021, detailing the success of its graduates.
  • A review by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley of Arizona State University examines these questionable assertions made about the performance and life satisfaction of Summit graduates.
  • The report claims that Summit alumni graduated from college at nearly double the national average and self-reported high levels of well-being, fulfillment, and workplace satisfaction.
  • However, Professor Amrein-Beardsley explains, low survey response rates and incomplete or inaccurate methodology prevent these claims from being justified.

The Summit Learning Program: Big Promises, Lots of Money, Little Evidence of Success

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Thursday, June 25, 2020
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Summit Public Schools has aggressively marketed its Summit Learning Platform to schools across the United States since 2015.

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  • Summit Public Schools has aggressively marketed its Summit Learning Platform to schools across the United States since 2015.
  • As a result, the Summit Learning Program is now one of the most prominent digital personalized learning programs in the United States.
  • Summit Public Schools began marketing its proprietary Summit Learning Program to potential "partner" schools in 2015 as a free, off-the-shelf, personalized learning program; it is now used in nearly 400 schools nationwide.
  • The marketing message of Summit Learning Program trades on the alleged success of the Summit Public Schools.

Inaugural Spotlight Honors Best Practices in Personalized Learning

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Monday, May 21, 2018
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These inaugural Summit Learning Spotlight recipients represent outstanding examples of individualized instruction using Summit Learning , a personalized approach to teaching and learning.

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  • These inaugural Summit Learning Spotlight recipients represent outstanding examples of individualized instruction using Summit Learning , a personalized approach to teaching and learning.
  • "On behalf of the entire Summit Learning community, we are thrilled to recognize the 2018 Summit Learning Spotlight schools and teachers for the positive impact they are making in their communities," said Diane Tavenner, CEO and co-founder of Summit Public Schools.
  • Through the free Summit Learning Program , more than 330 schools have implemented and tailored Summit Learning for their communities, reaching more than 54,000 students across 40 states.
  • The Summit Learning Spotlight recipients were nominated by their peers within the Summit Learning community and then went through a rigorous selection process based on criteria such as high-quality instruction, positive student outcomes, and fostering a positive and inclusive culture.