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 ...

Educators are increasingly getting behind a big idea: organize learning and recognize achievement based on students’ mastery of a defined set of competencies. Competency-based education, also known as ...

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 ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity ...

A group of philanthropies and school and technology advocacy groups, with contributions from educators, compiled a four-part “working definition” of the attributes of personalized learning. They also ...