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 ...
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 ...
State Education Department discusses proposal that could change grading, class-time requirements, and testing as Board of ...
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 ...
Education Department and regional accreditors seek common ground on competency-based education, including what the faculty role should be in the emerging form of higher education. The U.S. Department ...
New York is proposing a major shift in how students earn a high school diploma. Instead of traditional requirements, students ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...
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 ...