WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight years after releasing the field's first working definition of competency-based education, CompetencyWorks (at the Aurora Institute, formerly iNACOL, ...

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 ...

Among the set of schools tagged competency education, for example, only 47 percent report having a competency framework that defines what proficiency looks like at each performance level. Second, some ...

Grit. Open. Disruptive innovation. Powerful ideas that seem simple in print quickly take on new, and potentially divergent, meanings as they are applied to policy and practice. Some terms, including ...

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 ...

An integrated pattern of learned beliefs, values and behaviors that can be shared among groups Elements of cultural competency: personal identification, language, thoughts, communications, actions, ...

Ms. Brooks is a professor of law and policy at Georgetown Law. In the past month, the Delta variant has driven up the number of new Covid cases by tens of thousands, thrown America’s pandemic response ...

Reading the number of wishes, desires, complaints and suggestions found in various educational blogs can be perplexing. Obviously many teachers are very competent and yet not everything seems to work ...