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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) awards academic credit based on what students can prove they have learned rather than the amount of time spent in class. The model has received substantial attention ...

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 ...

Personalized learning. Proficiency-based education. Mastery-based learning. Competency-based education. They’re all different terms that refer to a reimagining of how schools operate so that students ...

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 ...

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