In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

Excel High School's accelerated Competency-Based Education (CBE) pathway is designed to remove the time barriers that prevent working adults from graduating--allowing students to complete their ...

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 ...

Speakers at last week's annual conference of the nonprofit Competency-Based Education Network promoted a new report that's part of a coordinated push to grow adoption and acceptance of the education ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix leaders Marc Booker, Ph.D., vice provost, Strategy, Doris Savron, vice provost, Colleges, and the Competency-Based Education (CBE) Program team, have ...

Andrea Miranda didn’t think traditional four-year college was in her future when she graduated from high school in Massachusetts in 2010. It was expensive, especially compared with free college in ...

(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 ...