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, communication and family partnership in the ICU as trainable, assessable ...

California’s community colleges are experimenting with a radical new model of education, but some professors are pushing back. Faculty at Madera Community College have become the most vocal opposition ...

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 ...

Vietnam faces a dual challenge in physician workforce development: an insufficient supply of doctors relative to population ...