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

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 ...

California’s community colleges are experimenting with a radical new model of education, but some professors are pushing back. Faculty at Madera Community College have become the most vocal opposition ...

Wyoming students may soon see the end of their school system as they know it. In April, the state’s board of education, education department, flagship public university, and governor agreed to start a ...

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 ...

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. For years, New York officials ...

Texas State Technical College has announced a new partnership with Volta Learning Group to assist in transitioning from a traditional curriculum model to a competency-based model starting in Fall 2021 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York is moving forward with a major overhaul of its high school graduation requirements. The State Education Department and Board of Regents announced plans for what officials ...