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Education Domain Blog

Increasing Access to Work-Based Learning: Federal Policy Recommendations

July 26, 2023

Khamiah Alderman, Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Fund Innovation

Best Practices for High-Quality Work-Based Learning

July 20, 2023

Khamiah Alderman

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Leverage Career and Technical Education

The Power of Work-Based Learning in Competency-Based Education

July 18, 2023

Khamiah Alderman

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Activate Student Agency, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Education Domain Blog

Aurora Institute Issues Call to Action for Federal Policymakers in New Report - Federal Policy Priorities: Charting a New Path for America’s Learners

October 19, 2021

Susan Patrick, Alexis Chambers, Fred Jones

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Harness Opportunities in ESSA, Modernize HEA, Increase Access to Broadband, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Design for Educational Equity, Create Space to Pilot Systems of Assessments

Education Domain Blog

The Learner Promise: A Paradigm Shift Whose Time Has Come

October 22, 2020

Susan Patrick, Katherine Casey

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Design for Educational Equity, State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Develop Educator Capacity, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Fund Innovation, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency

Education Domain Blog

Moving from One-Size-Fits-All: Changes Needed for Innovative Assessment Pilots in the Wake of COVID-19

August 11, 2020

Susan Patrick, Alexis Chambers

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Harness Opportunities in ESSA, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Design for Educational Equity, Create Space to Pilot Systems of Assessments, State Policy, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Create Pilots and Innovation Zones, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Education Domain Blog

Susan Patrick on Five Global Trends in Education

September 6, 2019

Communications Staff

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Harness Opportunities in ESSA, Modernize HEA, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Support Professional Learning, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce

Education Domain Blog

Reflecting on Opportunities to Advance Equity and Student-Centered Learning in Career and Technical Education

May 21, 2019

Alexis Chambers, Natalie Truong

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Design for Educational Equity

Education Domain Blog

Opportunities for Competency Education in the Reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act

August 4, 2018

Maria Worthen, Natalie Truong

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Accreditation: What is the Department of Education Thinking?

July 30, 2018

Alana Dunagan

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Education Domain Blog

Senate HELP Committee Moves Forward on Perkins Reauthorization

June 27, 2018

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Not Your Grandpa’s Voc Ed: Rigorous Career and Technical Education in Henry County, Georgia

May 7, 2016

Contributing Author

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

Education Domain Blog

Increase Opportunity for Student Success through Multiple Pathways to Graduation

April 26, 2016

Dale Frost

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, State Policy, Redefine Student Success

What is it Going to Mean to Have a Proficiency-Based Diploma?

January 13, 2016

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, State Policy, Redefine Student Success

Charting the Future of Competency-Based Education Policy

September 10, 2015

Julia Freeland

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Integrating Career Technical Education with Competency-Based Education

August 8, 2015

Carri Schneider

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Re-Thinking Assets in Competency-Based Transcripts

July 21, 2015

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Fulton County Schools Completes “Back Room” Infrastructure to Enhance Technology in Classrooms

June 17, 2015

Jennifer Klein

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

High Schools May Be Competency-Based Without Knowing It?

April 25, 2015

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

What Comes after "Next"?

February 18, 2015

Michelle Weise

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Competency Education in a K-16+ World

November 19, 2014

Jonathan Vander Els

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

Preparing Students for Competency-Based Hiring

October 28, 2014

Stacey Clawson

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do in K12 and Higher Education

June 20, 2014

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, State Policy, Redefine Student Success

Five Quick Thoughts About Accountability

February 13, 2014

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

HELP Committee Report on ESEA Includes Competency Education

October 15, 2013

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education