Five State Policy Recommendations for Governors: Supporting Innovation in Education for the Future Workforce
Several times per year, governors and their state teams meet to discuss critical issues for state…
Seven States With Enabling Policies to Support Innovations in K-12 Education to Offer More Personalized Approaches and Competency-Based Systems
Which states lead in helping districts and schools create more personalized learning for students? This is…
iNACOL 2019 State Policy Priorities
This brief provides analysis of state policy changes needed toward a long-range vision to transform education and…
Issue to Tackle for Certifying Learning: Meaningful Qualifications
Not only do high school diplomas need to certify mastery of academic competencies, but they also…
Certifying Learning: A Threshold Concept to Ensure Student Success and Career Pathways
A previous blog post introduced the idea of threshold concepts. The four threshold concepts in iNACOL’s…
Current to Future State: Issues and Action Steps for State Policy to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
This report provides a roadmap and action steps for state policymakers to catalyze transformational change in K-12…
Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education
This paper explores and reflects on the issues state policy needs to address in the long-term to…
From Vermont to New Zealand: Next Generation Approaches to Certifying Student Readiness for Future Success
Meaningful qualifications are credentials and degrees awarded based on demonstrated mastery of the skills, knowledge and dispositions…
Meaningful Qualifications and State Policy: Certifying Knowledge in Competency-Based, K-12 Education Systems
How is it possible that our education system still has many students who lack basic reading and…
Current to Future State: A Vision for a Future, Student-Centered K-12 Education System
In our last blog post, we introduced the threshold concepts we need to understand to embrace a…