This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

Today, Juana Arias-Dominguez, an AP Spanish teacher at Union City High School in New Jersey, shares how to develop oral competency in students learning a language. As a past program leader for the ...

Language programs in the 21 st century must help students gain the language and literacy proficiency they will need to succeed in the real world. This means that relying only on traditional ways of ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

Advocates for competency-based learning, and for new approaches to teacher education, can chalk up another victory: the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved the Woodrow Wilson Academy of ...

If learning is to prepare children for life, assessment must measure their life-ready skills. The National Curriculum ...

Transforming education in India through competency-based assessment, focusing on skills, understanding, and application rather than rote memorization.

Government sources said the tweaks will ensure Hindi proficiency is not an impediment, and that the examination will be in ...