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 Newfound Area School District was one of the first three in New Hampshire to adopt “competency-based education,” keeping ...

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 ...

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 ...

University of Phoenix is pleased to report that more than four thousand individuals have graduated from its competency-based Master of Business Administration (MBA-CB), Master of Health Administration ...

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With up to 600 colleges working to create competency-based education programs, a new report examines the business model for this emerging approach to higher education, finding significant savings ...

The Utah Education Interim Committee met Wednesday, May 18 to discuss competency-based education in Utah schools. (Bryan Pearson) The Utah Education Interim Committee met on Wednesday, May 18 to ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

My college roommate Chris was notorious for a few things. Chris looked vaguely Nordic and enjoyed putting on a Viking helmet, taking off all his clothes, and venturing out to Cross Campus Lawn to ask ...