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 ...

Despite massive changes in society and technology since colonial times, one thing hasn’t changed much: the way we teach, test, and pass our students along to the next level—or into their adult working ...

Competency-based education experts in NC shared how schools and systems can shift to allow students to learn at their own ...

Two major players in K–12 education launched a joint effort last month to develop new assessments that could help shift schools’ focus away from traditional “seat time” requirements and toward more ...

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 ...

Heather Nicholson considers her classroom a “modern-day, one-room schoolhouse.” On a May morning last school year, it was easy to see why. Elementary schoolers sat in one corner, learning Mandarin ...

The World Bank has pointed out a crisis in learning: “For too many children, schooling does not mean learning…” In 2012, the International Commission on Financing Global Education reported that 37 ...

Building out a robust competency-based training system requires more upfront planning and concentrated effort. It will allow ...

New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI): All central government employees have been mandated to complete competency-linked courses relevant to ...

Competency-based education (CBE) turns the traditional approach on its head. First, instead of everyone getting the same lecture, CBE is about adapting the delivery of knowledge to the learner’s own ...