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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its ...

Digital Promise, a national nonprofit organization authorized by Congress, and Education Elements, an education company, yesterday released several free resources that are designed to help districts ...

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 ...