The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

Digital Promise, a national nonprofit organization authorized by Congress, and Education Elements, an education company, yesterday released several free resources that are designed to help districts ...

Competency-based education has spread slower than many expected, particularly given hype in recent years about its approach, which emphasizes what students know and can do, tends to be more focused on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Competency-based education isn’t for everyone, say even supporters of the emerging form of higher education. Many of the 600 or so colleges that are trying to add competency-based degrees are focused ...

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 ...

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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 ...

College students and their parents find it increasingly difficult to cope with tuition hyperinflation and historically high student-loan debt. Over the last 30 years, the average tuition for a U.S.

Marks flatten human potential. Two students may each score 80 in a Maths exam. Yet one might read a chart like a detective. The other may model a situation with elegant algebra. Conventional testing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As the first baccalaureate program of its kind in the nation, Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s transdisciplinary studies in technology degree offers a unique approach to ...