Future doctors may no longer be required to learn in medical school about how social and economic factors affect health.

The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards requiring schools to teach ...

Earlier this year Capella University and the new College for America began enrolling hundreds of students in academic programs without courses, teaching professors, grades, deadlines or credit hour ...

The shift from time to learning, from cohorts to competency, will be tough. It’s not easy or superficial--it’s a new and different way of organizing Students advance upon mastery. Competencies include ...

Student teachers with more multicultural awareness foster more positive classroom environments for their students, finds a new study. Student teachers with more multicultural awareness foster more ...

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 ...

Advocates for competency-based learning, and for new approaches to teacher education, can chalk up another victory: the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved the Woodrow Wilson Academy of ...

“Competency systems can produce more equity, but only if we’re really intentional about making equity a goal. Unless we drive more time and support to students that need it, a competency system could ...

The Ministry of Education and Training has issued a new circular establishing a national digital competency framework for ...

Jebeh Edmunds has a passion for offering multicultural educational resources to promote positive change. She does that through her own consulting small business, Jebeh Consulting Company. “As humans, ...