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 ...

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

Students will face more competency-based questions, including case studies, data interpretation, source-based items, and situational problem-solving tasks.

Despite massive changes in society and technology since colonial times, one thing hasn’t changed much: the way we teach, test, and pass our students along to the next level—or into their adult working ...

AI systems, replacing STEM education, would ensure students are evaluated based on actual competency rather than memorization ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders laughed off as “absurd” Republican Nikki Haley‘s proposal to require mental competency tests for political candidates over the age of 75. The former South Carolina governor floated ...

There’s something sloppy about efforts by the Kaduna State government to ensure quality control in its education system by tracking the competency of teachers. Rather than beef up standards, those ...