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League of Innovative Schools Members Named 2016 “Leaders to Learn From”

Digital Promise

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. Additionally, Akin is a vocal proponent of competency-based learning, empowering students to work at their own pace and progress based on their mastery of skills and standards.

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League of Innovative Schools Members Named 2016 “Leaders to Learn From”

Digital Promise

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. Additionally, Akin is a vocal proponent of competency-based learning, empowering students to work at their own pace and progress based on their mastery of skills and standards.

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. For more information about the district, watch this short documentary: Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning.

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Higher Ed’s Credit Transfer System Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way.

Edsurge

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. Thirty-eight percent of first-time students transfer schools within their first six years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

From 2009 to 2011, following the book’s publication, the Hume Foundation made grants to Rocketship in the Bay Area and Carpe Diem in Yuma, AZ, two charter schools that were already implementing blended learning, to promote their models. Innosight Institute later changed its name to the Clayton Christensen Institute.).

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‘Bigly’ Education Decisions for 2017

Edsurge

President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. Employers are providing skills based training to their staff utilizing unbundled, SaaS resources like LinkedIn Learning. It allows about 1,200 eligible students in Washington D.C. Its future looks bright.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. Another 13 were in “developing” stages of adoption, according to Competency Works , an online project of iNACOL, an education research nonprofit. percent between 2009 and 2017.