Competency-based education is in vogue — even though most people have never heard of it, and those who have can't always agree on what it is. A report out today from the American Enterprise Institute ...

Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its ...

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 ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

What happens during competency evaluation? An expert explains.

Strategic action competency is a key managerial skill for mid- to upper-level management. A managerial competency in general is a set of knowledge, skills and behaviors that allows a manager to ...

As your small business grows and you begin to add staff, you'll need to decide on a compensation plan that best suits your organization. One option is a competency-based plan, which rewards ...