Competency-based education is slowly catching on, with the help of policies that give permission for schools in every state to adopt it. But the learning model—a series of non-traditional approaches ...

A new commentary in Intensive Care Medicine proposes a competency-based educational continuum that treats compassion, ...

Competency-based medical education (CBME) represents a paradigm shift from traditional time-based curricula to outcomes-centred training. The core principle of CBME is to ensure that learners acquire ...

For busy adults juggling careers, families and full lives, going back to school has often meant fitting into a system that ...

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...

New York is moving forward with a major overhaul of its high school graduation requirements. The State Education Department and Board of Regents announced plans for what officials describe as the ...