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 ...

Personalized learning. Proficiency-based education. Mastery-based learning. Competency-based education. They’re all different terms that refer to a reimagining of how schools operate so that students ...

(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 ...

The state of New Hampshire is contemplating a shift to competency based learning. As reported by Amanda Gokee for the Boston Glode, the shift is facing pushback from many educators. The pushback is ...

Beginning fall 2026, Lake Land College is set to introduce a Competency-Based Education (CBE) format in three key manufacturing programs. The CBE format will allow students to build their own ...

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

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically ...

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 ...

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 ...

Centereach, N.Y.: A fifth grader at Holbrook Road Elementary School in Centereach, New York takes the New York State English Language Arts exam on April 4, 2019. America’s K-12 education system often ...

What you need to know: The reform follows a directive from the Ministry of Education and Sports, which requires all tertiary institutions to adopt the Competence-Based Education and Training (CBET) ...

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 ...