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 ...

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Every time Bill Zima, superintendent of schools in Hallowell, Maine, sends an email, it has this sentence under his signature: "Cultivating Hope In All Learners." This is his school district's ...

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares for its first post-pandemic school year, the results of a new Khan Academy survey of teachers offers hope for a brighter future and, at the ...

As I have written and spoken about for years, including here at the Center for Digital Education, almost all schools are based on time — seat time. Students attend classes for a certain number of ...

If you’re a parent with school-aged kids, chances are you’ve heard the term “proficiency-based learning.” It’s a hot topic, and for good reason: Vermont’s Education Quality Standards, adopted by the ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

The learning institutions have changed their teaching methods and affected our cognitive abilities at the same time. I’m not sure if I have really learned [something] in the last 12 months. I wonder ...

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 ...