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 Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

Western Governors University is pioneering a new, fast-growing model of education: Competency-based learning. In traditional classrooms, time is fixed and student learning varies. Schools operate ...

Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. A student of mine in an accelerated program for new arrivals to the U.S., in just ...

(TNS) — Jaqueline Yalda, who has been a campus police officer at El Paso Community College in Texas for a decade, sought a promotion earlier this year. But first, the department required her to ...

Competency-based education is one of those big ideas about how to reshape education that’s been around for a while. And fans of the approach say this time of change occasioned by the pandemic is a ...

A new initiative aims at giving Nevada students more flexibility to move through classes at their own pace. The “Nevada Future of Learning Network” focuses on competency-based learning. The goal is to ...

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 ...

Sarah Robinson pictured left, listening to Leslie Want pictured middle, with Somayeh Kashi pictured right, discuss public education in NH. Credit: SARAH DONOVAN Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s ...

The debate highlights a growing ideological divide between conservatives who have advocated for expanding nontraditional educational approaches demonstrated by charter and private schools, and ...

A recent study suggests that although there is growing interest in skills- and competency-based learning, few colleges and universities have actually implemented the new model. The report, released ...

Flipick today announced the launch of Flipick LMS, an enterprise learning management system built around competency tracking and adaptive learning--moving beyond traditional completion-based metrics ...