Do high schools use competency-based education—judging student progress by mastery, not seat time—as a dropout prevention strategy? The answer, according to a survey by the U.S. Department of ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, iNACOL published a new policy issue brief titled, State Strategies to Develop Teacher Capacity for Personalized, Competency-Based ...

Washington, D.C. –The rise of 21st century learners who are highly mobile and who have gained knowledge and skills from multiple institutions and practical experiences is highlighting the value ...

An in-depth look at current barriers to competency-based education, the equity imperative behind CBE, and five key points to move the field toward CBE for all. Leadership Back Leadership ...

A Fundamental Flaw in Competency Learning. By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway; 07/13/15; The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are ...

It is a model where students “progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time,” and it asks schools to develop strategies for ensuring equity for all students almost as a precondition. I fully ...

The instructional help they receive is timely and differentiated, based on their individual learning needs. The challenge for CBE proponents, the authors wrote, is that districts and schools are ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

Mastery-based learning precludes revisiting topics It turns out that the phrase most used to describe mastery-based learning — “move on upon mastery” — is misleading. Although students might not fully ...