I’m trying to square two things that happened last week. The Nellie Mae Foundation issued a great report called (MMW), a visit to 11 cool schools. The other event was a Facebook dialog with ...

Tom Rooney sees competency-based education—supported by digital learning tools—as the path to building a better school district. The superintendent of the 4,200-student Lindsay Unified School District ...

"Equity" is frequently defined in terms of the "achievement gap" when it comes to education—the persistent inability to promote high achievement among all students, especially poor students and ...

In every spring, it seems, higher education finds something attractive in the flower pollen. This year, it is the discovery of competence as superior to course credits, and in an embrace of that ...

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In today's education system, you might see a new type of question in your exams– competency-based questions. Unlike traditional questions that just ask you to remember facts, these questions want you ...

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 ...