When done well, mastery-based learning ensures that each and every student leaves K-12 schools prepared for postsecondary education or the workforce. Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for ...

Quality Matters Specific Standard 5.1 is “The learning activities promote the achievement of the stated learning objectives or competencies.” The purpose of learning activities is to provide students ...

Learning in contemporary higher education is rooted deeply in calendars and time rather than mastery of the topic of the learning. With an inflexible semester or quarter calendar and an ...

This article is part of the collection: The Complex World of School Redesign: The Building Blocks and the Builders. This profile is part of an EdSurge Research Guide about school redesign and the ...

Writing a negative blog post about “competency-based learning” is dangerous! After all, how can any sane educator be against children developing competencies? So, we need to be very clear: We are not ...

One of the most popular topics these days in education is mastery learning—the idea that the pace of a class should match what each student is ready to learn, as a way to ensure they’re really ...

When you’ve been around as long as I have, one gets all manner of intriguing questions. While I usually respond to such queries in private, some seem likely to be of broader interest. So, in “Ask Rick ...

School is a game in many ways and so the rules create winners and losers. Points are earned by those who know how to play the game well and those who refuse to play it often find themselves not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. CEO & Co-author of Mastery - Why Deeper Learning is Essential... Imagine a sales team being trained on an innovative new product—a ...

Writing a negative blog post about “competency-based learning” is dangerous! After all, how can any sane educator be against children developing competencies? So, we need to be very clear: We are not ...