It’s been nearly four centuries since the first formal classrooms appeared in what would eventually become the United States. The earliest example of a public school was the Boston Latin School, ...

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 ...

In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...

Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...

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When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...

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/ ...

The Aurora Institute, a national nonprofit that focuses its efforts on policy change and innovation within the education space, has made it clear it supports a slew of policy changes to better K-12 ...

In the evolving landscape of education, two prominent learning approaches stand out: Rote Learning and Competency-Based Learning (CBL). While both aim to impart knowledge and skills, their ...