The Tough Question: What is the Federal Role in Competency Education?
Over the past few years we have seen a groundswell of interest and adoption of competency based…
Does the NCAA Allow Online Courses or Competency-Based Education?
Does the NCAA allow online courses for high school athletes to be eligible for college? The short…
Collegiate Endorsement of Proficiency-Based Education and Graduation
We all know higher education plays a big role in designing and institutionalizing competency education, including alignment…
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…
Ensuring the Going is Good
The recent surge in interest regarding competency-based approaches in education — the idea that students advance by…
Challenging “What School Looks Like”
An unpublished Letter to the Editor in response to Tuesday’s New York Times editorial, “The Trouble With…
Federal and State Policy: What Is Needed for Digital Learning?
Yesterday, friend and colleague John Bailey (Digital Learning Now!) joined me for a conversation about upcoming trends...
State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada (2012)
As the fifth edition in the State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada series, author…
Responding to the Portland Press Herald
The Portland (Maine) Press Herald recently ran a few stories on K-12 online learning in the state…
Competency Education in Higher Education: Taking the First Steps
Last week I attended a Center for American Progress event on competency-based education from the perspective of…