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How Competency-Based Education Can Sustain Today’s Classrooms

March 4, 2025March 1, 2025 by Kevin Hogan

Sean Ryan, President of McGraw Hill School Group, breaks down the elements of Competency-Based Education (CBE) in education and how its implementation can transform teaching and learning. CBE…

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Why competency-based education is challenging centuries of tradition

March 7, 2022February 28, 2022 by Kevin Stringfellow, Associate Director of Client Solutions, ExamSoft

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…

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Aperture Education Wins 2021 EdTech Breakthrough Award

June 9, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

Aperture Student Portal, which supports social and emotional learning in high school, is named “Best Competency-based Education Solution” Charlotte N.C. ... Read more

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5 things to help move us closer to competency-based education

October 30, 2018 by Laura Ascione

Despite educators' genuine enthusiasm about new, competency-based education may be slow to spread to U.S. schools due to sizable barriers, according to a report published Oct. 22. The…

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5 trends for seeding CBE growth

October 16, 2018 by Julia Freeland Fisher

As more and more school systems across the country explore competency-based education (CBE), we need to be attentive to the processes that will actually allow such innovations to…

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4 important lessons our school learned about competency-based learning

October 4, 2018 by Martin Moran

The rigors of an interconnected, global society have changed the way in which schools need to approach student success. In previous generations, the “organize and sort” method, typified…

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5 critical considerations for CBE and CBL implementation

December 14, 2016December 9, 2016 by Dr. Deborah Everhart

As schools begin to invest in competency-based education (CBE) and higher ed institutions set up competency-based programs, two of the big questions often unanswered become “is their focus…

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Chalk & Wire unveils MyMantl learning recognition network

August 2, 2016 by Laura Ascione

As educational institutions and employers alike are moving away from macro-credentials, Chalk & Wire, a higher education assessment platform, unveiled ... Read more

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The latest push for competency-based learning

May 1, 2014 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Student-centered learning is at the forefront of many education reforms today, as stakeholders realize that personalizing learning is key to student success. And competency-based learning--the idea that students…