A new commentary in Intensive Care Medicine proposes a competency-based educational continuum that treats compassion, ...

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 Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...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 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 ...

For busy adults juggling careers, families and full lives, going back to school has often meant fitting into a system that ...

Edsby®, a multi-award-winning, next-generation K‑12 digital learning platform, today introduced Edsby Destinations, a scalable competency-based assessment and reporting system for school districts and ...

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 ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance ...

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 ...

What Today's Learners Expect from Competency-Based Education, surveyed 600 prospective undergraduate and graduate students ages 20 to 59 ac ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A school principal told me, with genuine pride, that her school does experiential learning. They take students to the beach to clean it. I did not say what I was thinking, but I have not stopped ...