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By far, this news piece on Maine’s proficiency-based diploma<\/a> is the best I’ve seen at explaining what we mean wh\"Screen<\/a>en we say proficiency-based learning or competency education. The big point is that we know ask for 4 math courses to graduate rather than being proficient in them.<\/p>\n

We still need to get our explanations down to an “elevator speech”.\u00a0 We’d love to hear how you explain what proficiency-learning is? 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