Inside the rise of competency-based education and what it means for today's learners.

Marzano Resources, a leading authority on competency-based practices and systemic school improvement, is pleased to announce the release of Competency-Based Practices: Factors for Successful ...

For years, accreditors, employers and a host of educational reformers have sought an outcomes-oriented education with explicit learning objectives and rigorous assessments to evaluate and certify ...

How do teachers learn to teach in a way they likely never experienced as students, and especially if they didn’t learn how do it in their preparation programs? One option is to learn that way through ...

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 ...

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 ...

The value of a liberal arts education rests less in the questions that our students learn to answer, and more in the questions that our students learn to ask. I am skeptical of any claim that ...

In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home in Bishop Hall Charter School. At Bishop Hall, students master skills at their own speed. Principal Chris ...

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.

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 (CBE) awards academic credit based on what students can prove they have learned rather than the amount of time spent in class. The model has received substantial attention ...

In a significant step towards strengthening the quality, uniformity and global competitiveness of allied and healthcare education in the country, the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare ...