The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are adopting competency learning. But, based on the research literature in the psychology of ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has published a list of approved Curriculum Support Materials for Grade 10 learners in senior schools. In a notice dated Tuesday, December 23, 2025 ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...

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 ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

In the evolving landscape of education, two prominent learning approaches stand out: Rote Learning and Competency-Based Learning (CBL). While both aim to impart knowledge and skills, their ...

Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...

As 2025 draws to a close, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has emerged as one of the most active education ...

Faculty members tend to be skeptical about attempts to go beyond grading with standardized definitions and measures of what students should learn -- the so-called student learning outcomes accreditors ...

The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Sports, Dr Kedrace Turyagyenda, is welcomed by the Director of ...