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 ...

Second, some schools may be implementing certain aspects of competency-based education, but not describing their overall model that way. For example, among schools indicating that their grading ...

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

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...

Texas State Technical College has announced a new partnership with Volta Learning Group to assist in transitioning from a traditional curriculum model to a competency-based model starting in Fall 2021 ...

What you need to know: Vice-President calls for skills-oriented higher education. Vice-President Jessica Alupo has urged universities and tertiary institutions to adopt competence-based learning to ...

COVID-19 has forced educators to reexamine some of their core practices, and in some cases, circumvent them altogether. Measuring learning by how much time students spend in a classroom could be next ...

Competency-based education has become a global trend, promoted by international organizations such as the OECD and UNESCO, to equip students with skills for future careers and societal participation.

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A World Bank project has helped advance Vietnam’s medical education to better prepare new doctors for the changes ahead in the healthcare system. Launched in 2014, the Health Professionals Education ...