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 ...

Many parents were alarmed last year at the news of the lowest test scores in decades following the pandemic. Some academic experts say it's an opportunity to take a step back and consider new learning ...

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The debate highlights a growing ideological divide between conservatives who have advocated for expanding nontraditional educational approaches demonstrated by charter and private schools, and ...

Guwahati: In a major push towards competency-based education in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the Assam State School Education Board (ASSEB), in collaboration with PARAKH ...

If a school has truly moved away from seat-time-based models and social promotion, then an observer would expect to see multiple ages learning together rather than age or grade-level as the primary ...

New York is proposing a major shift in how students earn a high school diploma. Instead of traditional requirements, students could be evaluated in a new way.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance ...

A Florida competency-based education pilot program that started in 2016 and was expected to expire at the end of the 2020-2021 school year could grow, if a proposed law passed. HB 523 would rename the ...