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 ...

Wein Motugi, a grade three pupil of Golden Elites, puts the final touches on his toy, September 16, 2019. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] The ongoing debate about the implementation of the Competency-Based ...

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 ...

In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

Why competency-based education is challenging centuries of tradition Kevin Stringfellow, Associate Director of Client Solutions, ExamSoft February 28, 2022 Competency-based education offers a way for ...

Any new technology has challenges related to costs and benefits, risks and rewards. Atomic energy. Cars. Planes. Even antibiotics. But I’m late to a new ethical challenge in the field of education ...

Western Governors University is pioneering a new, fast-growing model of education: Competency-based learning. In traditional classrooms, time is fixed and student learning varies. Schools operate ...

Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...

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 ...

A class at Alabama’s Southern Union State Community College. The state’s community colleges are an important element in its rethinking of how education connects with career pathways. (Photo: Southern ...

A new initiative aims at giving Nevada students more flexibility to move through classes at their own pace. The “Nevada Future of Learning Network” focuses on competency-based learning. The goal is to ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is rewriting the rulebook for how Indian students are evaluated. Starting this academic year, the Class 10 board exams will see a major transformation ...