Carneige Unit...help

[Holly IN]

My son went through Teen Pact this week. On his certifiicate they said he earned 1/3 Carnegie Unit. What does this mean? I know nothing about Carnegie unit.

It is an on-site , 3000 minute course for State Politics and Government.

Here is the website for teen pact. www.teenpact.com

Thanks

Holly

[Jenny in Florida]

Basically, it was an attempt to standardize the high school credit by setting a certain number of hours of contact time with an instructor. It's where folks get the idea that a studying a subject for a certain number of hours adds up to a credit.

Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_unit

However, it's not like there's a big agency somewhere tracking all of our students' Carnegie units. There is no official designation of anything. It's just a way of measuring how much real instructional time your son experienced.

--Jenny

[Chris in VA]

It's odd they'd give 1/3 of a credit. I'd count it as an extra curricular activity, and go ahead and mention the time committment--
Or, if he needs a Gov't credit, you can count it as approximately a semester, if you add in a little more gov't--say, reading a good book or two, or maybe writing a short paper. Figure a Carnegie unit is about 120 hours. Your son did 50 hours. Do another 10 and you can count it and feel good about it! lol

[Holly IN]

He did alot of homework and read one book written by Tim Echols (Real Citzenship).

He also attended a class prep for the Teen Pact homework prep/discussions with other boys in the group that were going to Teen Pact.

I can count those hours as well correct? I may have him do another reading of a book on gov't.

Holly