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

Do high schools use competency-based education—judging student progress by mastery, not seat time—as a dropout prevention strategy? The answer, according to a survey by the U.S. Department of ...

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 ...

Tom Rooney sees competency-based education—supported by digital learning tools—as the path to building a better school district. The superintendent of the 4,200-student Lindsay Unified School District ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

(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 ...

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 “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are adopting competency learning. But, based on the research literature in the psychology of ...

Competency-based education is going upmarket. Three brand-name, Big Ten-affiliated institutions are now offering degrees in this emerging form of higher education. Yet the new programs at the ...

When concerns about the quality of education swept the nation in the 1990s, test results were said to promise a reliable measure of instructional effectiveness. They offered a way to make comparisons ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, the first institution approved to offer federal financial aid for bachelor’s and master’s degrees through a unique direct assessment approach to ...

The rigors of an interconnected, global society have changed the way in which schools need to approach student success. In previous generations, the “organize and sort” method, typified by an A-F ...