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 ...

Competency-based education is slowly catching on, with the help of policies that give permission for schools in every state to adopt it. But the learning model—a series of non-traditional approaches ...

Advocates of competency-based education see it as a way to free students from age-based cohorts and seat-time. But there may be drawbacks to this innovative approach, too. Educators all over the world ...

HP FUTURES represents a holistic vision for education — anchored in competency-based learning, value education through sport, ...

In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home in Bishop Hall Charter School. At Bishop Hall, students master skills at their own speed. Principal Chris ...

The value of a liberal arts education rests less in the questions that our students learn to answer, and more in the questions that our students learn to ask. I am skeptical of any claim that ...

Speakers at last week's annual conference of the nonprofit Competency-Based Education Network promoted a new report that's part of a coordinated push to grow adoption and acceptance of the education ...

Eighth-graders from Rundlett Middle School create personal budgets based on the theoretical salaries during a financial literacy fair held at NHTI in Concord on Thursday, May 11, 2017. The event was ...

Educators are increasingly getting behind a big idea: organize learning and recognize achievement based on students’ mastery of a defined set of competencies. Competency-based education, also known as ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As the first baccalaureate program of its kind in the nation, Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s transdisciplinary studies in technology degree offers a unique approach to ...

Competency-Based Education (CBE) has been gathering steam hand in hand with Personalized [sic] Learning as the Next Big New Thing in education. But for folks who have been around education for a few ...