For years, accreditors, employers and a host of educational reformers have sought an outcomes-oriented education with explicit learning objectives and rigorous assessments to evaluate and certify ...

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 ...

This type of education model shifts learning from a one-size-fits-all approach to a more flexible and specialized learning ...

These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach ...

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 ...

Most state legislatures have broken down barriers to competency-based education, but they still have work to do. Forty-two states now provide flexibility for schools that want to try competency-based ...

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, ...

In higher education, semesters and credit hours are the typical measuring stick. But there's a different approach that's attracting more students, more colleges – and more scrutiny. It’s called ...

A growing number of state policymakers are excited about the potential for competency-based education (CBE) to better meet individual student needs and eliminate learning gaps that traditional ...

“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 ...

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 ...