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Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education

Edsurge

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. In 2005, New Hampshire became the first state in the country to tie high school graduation requirements to demonstration of competencies in core subject areas. Some terms, including “open,” get appended to specific use cases.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005. You can learn anything on YouTube, we’ve been told. Common Core State Standards.

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