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 ...

One of the tenets of mastery/competency-based learning is the idea that students’ progress is based on what they show that they know and can do. In the case of high schools, for example, you graduate ...

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 ...

When Krista Stalzer gave her class of fourth graders their first science assessment as part of a pilot program at her school in Epping, New Hampshire, she asked students to build a device that would ...

The rigors of an interconnected, global society have changed the way in which schools need to approach student success. In previous generations, the “organize and sort” method, typified by an A-F ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Even before the pandemic, kids were breaking down in American schools. In 2019, almost a third of Hoosier students in grades six through 12 reported feeling sad or hopeless for two or ...

For the past two and a half decades, I have spent my career working in American-style higher education, in the United States and around the globe. As I currently serve as the Vice Chancellor/ ...

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