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Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education

Edsurge

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. In 2005, New Hampshire became the first state in the country to tie high school graduation requirements to demonstration of competencies in core subject areas. Some terms, including “open,” get appended to specific use cases.

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. Web-based preferred. Next Generation Science Standards and 2005 Alabama Course of Study: Science. The results of that pilot will inform future purchasing decisions.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

Then in 2005, I had an epiphany. With the support of The Learning Accelerator, Education Super Highway launched the federally funded EdConnect initiative to bring adequate broadband to America’s classrooms, a fundamental requirement for technology empowered blended learning.

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95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design

eSchool News

“Digital Promise’s Research-Based Design Product Certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development. Through Product Certifications, consumers can narrow their options as they select products based on research about learning before trying them out in their classrooms.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. The goal is to establish a new set of graduation requirements for students based on academic mastery rather than credit hours.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005. You can learn anything on YouTube, we’ve been told.

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