The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...
The Aurora Institute, a national nonprofit that focuses its efforts on policy change and innovation within the education space, has made it clear it supports a slew of policy changes to better K-12 ...
(TNS) — Jaqueline Yalda, who has been a campus police officer at El Paso Community College in Texas for a decade, sought a promotion earlier this year. But first, the department required her to ...
“Competency systems can produce more equity, but only if we’re really intentional about making equity a goal. Unless we drive more time and support to students that need it, a competency system could ...
Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...
Melrose, a cozy suburb north of Boston, is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools good enough to draw young families in droves. Students perform well above the U.S. average and do better ...
College and university leaders continue to show great enthusiasm for competency-based learning. They believe it can address some of higher education’s most pernicious challenges: rising costs, ...
A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...
Apprenticeship within the Igbo system is governed by clearly understood norms: learning occurs through immersion, assessment ...
Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its ...
Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. A student of mine in an accelerated program for new arrivals to the U.S., in just ...
The phrase “competency-based education” is quite a mouthful, but it was all the rage a few years ago among college leaders looking to expand access to their programs. The idea can sound radical, since ...
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