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 ...

Western Governors University is pioneering a new, fast-growing model of education: Competency-based learning. In traditional classrooms, time is fixed and student learning varies. Schools operate ...

(TNS) — Jaqueline Yalda, who has been a campus police officer at El Paso Community College in Texas for a decade, sought a promotion earlier this year. But first, the department required her to ...

Award-winning Diagnostic, which is already widely used across the state, provides educators with actionable criterion-referenced and normative data to deliver impactful student instruction NORTH ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix announces the planned August 1, 2022, launch of two direct assessment competency-based education (CBE-Direct Assessment) programs at the graduate and ...

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...

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 ...

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has invited qualified teachers and teacher educators to apply for a specialised course on setting competency-based assessment questions, in a move aimed ...

Mangaluru: CBSE's proposed curriculum overhaul for the 2026-27 academic year seeks to promote flexibility, competency-based ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

The debate highlights a growing ideological divide between conservatives who have advocated for expanding nontraditional educational approaches demonstrated by charter and private schools, and ...