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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

Last month, Johnson joined a handful of educators from the League of Innovative Schools on a tour of three public school districts in New Hampshire, a leader in competency-based education. When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level.

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How AR and VR Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future (and Save Districts Money)

Edsurge

Whether you’re post-secondary or secondary, you have access to that money. And every state has a Carl Perkins grant , which is our federal money towards Career and Technical Education. Tapping into that is a great way to fund your programs. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars that our federal government is pouring into CTE.

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

The Hechinger Report

In thinking about how a semirural school district could support equity and opportunity for kids, they talked a lot about personalized and competency-based learning. The question of how a proficiency-based report card will affect college admissions is a common concern for families around the country.

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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Photo: James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Utah Makes Dramatic Progress Implementing Next Generation Learning

ExcelinEd

The state announced the recipients of the Competency-Based Education Planning Grant program. American Academy of Innovation. “We

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Framework: Ed Elements Provides Model, Plan, Hand-holding

Edsurge

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. Framework: Ed Elements Charts a Clear Path.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

Edsurge

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. Denver Public Library Dev Camp : a week-long summer camp where young adults learn the basics of web development, including HTML and CSS, as well as an introduction to JavaScript. .

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