The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

Competency-based education (CBE) turns the traditional approach on its head. First, instead of everyone getting the same lecture, CBE is about adapting the delivery of knowledge to the learner’s own ...

“Communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and self-direction have always been the skills developed by our most successful citizens. Standardized tests cannot assess these skills,” ...

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 ...

Excel High School's Competency-Based Education (CBE) diploma program (the AcceleratED Adult Diploma) is a fully online, regionally accredited pathway that allows adult learners to earn their high ...

When Krista Stalzer gave her class of fourth graders their first science assessment as part of a pilot program at her school in Epping, New Hampshire, she asked students to build a device that would ...

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 ...

Andrea Miranda didn’t think traditional four-year college was in her future when she graduated from high school in Massachusetts in 2010. It was expensive, especially compared with free college in ...

SALISBURY – The Rowan-Salisbury School Board on Monday looked to gather more information on how a popular new approach to education in recent years can help reach every student. In a traditional ...

The movement toward more dynamic and effective healthcare training is here. In the domain of healthcare, where the stakes are invariably high, the evolution of medical education represents both a ...