After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are adopting competency learning. But, based on the research literature in the psychology of ...

Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. A student of mine in an accelerated program for new arrivals to the U.S., in just ...

Now, researchers have discovered that some of these models work well together–for instance, blended learning and competency-based learning, another strong model in which students advance based on ...

Explore key insights from Educart’s CPD webinar on designing competency-based assessments using Bloom’s Taxonomy, UbD, ...

It’s no longer a given that if a child spends twelve years in school, he or she will learn enough to succeed in higher education or a career. To address this issue, some educators are taking bold ...

How do teachers learn to teach in a way they likely never experienced as students, and especially if they didn’t learn how do it in their preparation programs? One option is to learn that way through ...

We’re going to need every ounce of ingenuity, imagination, and creativity to confront...problems Sir Ken Robinson The world is changing, and -- as Sir Ken Robinson professes -- we will need every ...

For the past two and a half decades, I have spent my career working in American-style higher education, in the United States and around the globe. As I currently serve as the Vice Chancellor/ ...