The phrase “competency-based education” is quite a mouthful, but it was all the rage a few years ago among college leaders looking to expand access to their programs. The idea can sound radical, since ...

Curriculum trend: 4 ways to become more competency-based Angela Di Michele Lalor October 26, 2017 How to make a classroom curriculum more competency-based, where the focus is on helping all students ...

A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...

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 ...

More often than not, conversations about childhood development and education fail to consider the most important question: What does a child need to develop into a healthy adult? If we are to better ...

This article examines the concept of competency attainment in the light of practical experience at a competency-based institution. The argument is advanced that the concept of competency attainment ...

I failed every math class that I took in high school the first time around. I was not a bad student, but I struggled with mathematics and became less motivated with each poor test score. When my ...

Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its ...

Imagine you’re a student. You walk into a classroom on the first day of the semester. You approach your chosen desk and there sits a thick sealed envelope. Looking around, you see that each desk has ...

How to make a classroom curriculum more competency-based, where the focus is on helping all students achieve meaningful learning objectives. Small groups of students are clustered at tables examining ...

As Africa ponders the future of education, there is a great opportunity to embrace quality education systems beyond graduate output and literacy rates. This calls for a bold departure where literacy ...