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 ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

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 ...

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has released new Competency Model software for its Checkpoint Learning system that provides self-assessment tools to measure proficiency in the ...

Underlying the shift to blended and student-centered environments is the transition from marking seat time to tracking learning. In competency-based environments, students show what they know and they ...

Amy Slaton's February 21 essay is a good example of how a well-intentioned effort to defend the value of higher education ends up portraying competency-based education as something it’s not and ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. I’ve continued to go back to Tony Wan’s piece, Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining ...

Melrose, a cozy suburb north of Boston, is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools good enough to draw young families in droves. Students perform well above the U.S. average and do better ...