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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

DES MOINES --- Jason Glass, director of the Iowa Department of Education, on Thursday announced the 35 Iowans who will serve on the Competency-Based Instruction Task Force. The task force was ...

"I went to a four-year university." "That job requires a one-year certificate." "It's a two-semester course." "She's a fifth-year senior." What do these expressions have in common? They use time as ...

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 ...