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New Metrics and Student Engagement System

It is definitely time for the competency education innovators in K-12 and higher education to be learning from each other. One of the opportunities for learning from each other is in thinking about...

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Debunking a Myth – Competency-Based Transcripts Don’t Disadvantage High...

A transition to a competency-based education system brings with it many small and large changes. In order to serve their students better, districts, schools, and teachers change instructional...

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Webinar on CBE Student Outcomes Metrics Framework

The American Institutes for Research and the Institute for CBE at Texas A&M University-Commerce have developed a CBE Student Outcomes Metrics Framework to support a common language for measuring...

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Grades, College Admission, and Competency-Based Education

There’s a great quick read in the February AASA School Administrator on standards-based grading and the college admissions process. Four university college admissions staff were interviewed in Getting...

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Mastery Credits? Mastery Transcript?

I had the opportunity to participate in a fascinating conversation as a member of the advisory council to Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) a few weeks ago. Lots of people I’ve never met. Lots of...

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What’s Happening with Competency-Based Transcripts and Rethinking College...

This post originally appeared at iNACOL on June 11, 2018. What are competency-based transcripts, and why are they important? The New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) explains the main issue:...

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

This post originally appeared at iNACOL on August 3, 2018.  On July 23, Congress voted to pass a bill to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins Act) and on July...

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The MTC Network: Reinventing How Students Prepare for College, Career, and Life

How do we prepare students for future careers we can’t even begin to imagine? This is a question we hear a lot in education today. Teachers most commonly tell us that they are seeking to educate...

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Becoming an Effective Educator of English Learners: Job-Embedded,...

Ask any public-school teacher across the country about their greatest challenge. They are likely to tell you it is a lack of confidence in their own ability to work with students in their classes who...

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What’s College Like for Students from Mastery-Based High Schools?

This is the fourth post in a series about the Mastery Collaborative in New York City. This post originally appeared on the Mastery Collaborative’s website on December 19, 2018. Is mastery learning...

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