Time’s Up: US Department of Education Approves First College to Ditch the Credit Hour
For more than 100 years, the time-based credit hour has been the currency of higher education. Originally…
Department of Education Letter Could Put Cracks in the Credit Hour
This post was originally published on March 19, 2013 by the New America Foundation. The U.S. Department…
Competency Education in the News
Michael Horn in a post “Could Competency-Based Learning Save the Common Core?” on Forbes website challenges us…
Carnegie Rethinking the Unit
Wow. Carnegie Foundation is taking a look at the Carnegie Unit? Yep, it’s true. The Carnegie Foundation…
Making Mastery Work
(First of all, thanks to the great work being done by Achieve’s Competency-based Pathways Working Group– of…
When the Math Doesn’t Work
Last week there was a great piece Why Students Who Underperform Drop Out on the PBS Newshour. …
Cracking the Credit Hour
Cracking the Credit Hour from the New American Foundation is a fascinating read. It outlines exactly why…
Carnegie Unit Conundrum
How do you translate a measure of time into a measure of learning? It seems to me…
Update on Iowa
Iowa is advancing towards competency education. In a memo released July 16, 2012, Jason Glass, Director of…
The Core Business of Schooling: Competency (Part 1)
These are very exciting and interesting times for the field of education in general and those who…