5 Key Takeaways from The Past and the Promise: Today’s Competency Education Movement
Originally posted on October 20, 2014 at Jobs for the Future. Students at the Center, a Jobs…
Reflections after Two Years of Performance Assessment Cohorts in New Hampshire
Originally posted on September 22, 2014 for the Center for Assessment’s Reidy Interactive Lecture Series. Let’s now…
An Update From Oregon’s Business Education Compact
As you all know, Oregon is a state leader in proficiency-based education, first establishing credit flexibility in…
7 Ways State Policy Can Promote Competence
Originally posted Aug. 8, 2014 at Getting Smart. Since Horace borrowed the idea from the Prussians, we’ve…
Momentum is Building in Colorado
Colorado took a big step last year by establishing state policy for a proficiency-based high school diploma….
Next Gen Accountability: Ohio & Beyond
Originally published July 16, 2014 by Getting Smart. Accountability is a gift. We don’t often think of…
Threads of Implementation — Lessons Learned from Maine
The Maine Department of Education has condensed their six case studies on districts that have embraced proficiency-based…
Must Read: From Policy to Practice in New Hampshire
The Christenensen Institute just released “From policy to practice: How competency-based education is evolving in New Hampshire”. It is a…
More on Implementation in Maine
Thanks to the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the Maine Department of Education was able to conduct a…
New Hampshire Rocks Competency Education Policy
There just isn’t any other way to say it. The proposal of minimum standards for competency-based schools…