This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

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 ...

Personalized learning. Proficiency-based education. Mastery-based learning. Competency-based education. They’re all different terms that refer to a reimagining of how schools operate so that students ...

Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, has become a leading proponent of competency-based education, a way to award degrees based on testing and portfolios rather than ...

The skills gap is generating unprecedented attention -- and with good reason. Nearly 8 million Americans are unemployed and looking for work while an estimated 6 million jobs remain unfilled.