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 ...

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 ...

Paul LeBlanc certainly thinks so. He sees it as a realistic way to reverse the trend toward deepening socioeconomic inequality. Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No ...

When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...

Education Department's Office of Inspector General criticizes a regional accreditor over its review of competency-based education programs, citing faculty role. The U.S. Department of Education’s ...

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 ...

Keeping kids engaged at school, and getting them ready for the future of work, will take more than recycling old content into new activities - the entire structure of education needs to change. I ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. I’ve continued to go back to Tony Wan’s piece, Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining ...

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

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 ...

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 ...