The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

Students, educators, employers, and policymakers alike are beginning to embrace competency-based education models that have the potential to transform standards of higher education, keeping students ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dushanbe, 1–5 Nov – As part of the EU-funded project “Strengthening Competency-Based and ICT-Enabled STEM and VET Education ...

School District 300 will join 14 other Illinois school districts in looking at how to incorporate competency-based high school graduation requirements into its schools. Unlike the traditional high ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

The U.S. Department of Education will give its blessing -- and grant federal aid eligibility -- to colleges' experimentation with competency-based education and prior learning assessment. On Tuesday ...

Parents of Rundlett Middle School students will see a different sort of report card come home at the end of the quarter. Like many districts across New Hampshire, and, increasingly, the country, ...

A recent CAP event gathered education leaders to discuss the benefits and difficulties of this form of education. Students, educators, employers, and policymakers alike are beginning to embrace ...

Re: Steven Cook’s May 18 Labor Voices column “The end of standardized testing”: This may give way to something much worse. While Michigan is apparently cutting back on end-of-the-year tests, there are ...