Credit Hours Are Still Useful Measures for Schools, Study Concludes –Education Week

What is the “Carnegie” unit for awarding classroom credit, and how does it assess learning? Education Week discusses the history and implications of instruction-hour based credits, noting that “[i]n recent decades, critics of the measurement have said that, given the nation’s shifting focus on achievement and advances in technology making it possible for students to learn at their own pace, the Carnegie unit has become obsolete.”