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Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. The reform model is known by several different names, including proficiency-based education. The state’s boomerang confirmed for many critics that proficiency-based education was a failure. MELROSE, Mass.

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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery. Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students.

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Southern New Hampshire University’s Paul LeBlanc Wants Higher Ed to Back Up Its Claims

Edsurge

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. College for America , which partners with employers to offer competency-based online degree-programs for $3,000. Not long after, SNHU launched. The university is one of 40.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

Our investments were small but in the 2011–2012 school year, the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation and the Charter School Growth Fund made combined grants in this space of some $40 million. At that time, the only schools we could find that were innovating as whole school models were charters. So we were off and running.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

Edsurge

When Allen arrived at Parker Varney in 2012, the school was listed in the bottom 10 percent in the state. At Pittsford elementary, she says, there are “a higher number of students who are meeting their projected growth.” Some even more so; “one student is moving from first to third grade.”.

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The Four Biggest Challenges to Implementing Maine's Proficiency-Based Diploma

Edsurge

I believe the new proficiency-based diploma requirements are yet another beacon of educational leadership and innovation, one that will alter our education system in meaningful and lasting ways. But what exactly are these new kinds of diplomas, and just how difficult a transition do they pose to educators? First, the basics.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Further, authentic learning has the potential to make students more engaged. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge.

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