The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

From 2008 - 2011, the company worked on projects spanning early childhood, grades K-12, higher education and the workforce, while simultaneously crystallizing its philosophy. In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. The year M.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning. Some outside experts question that pay-for-performance model, either due to the risk that teachers may thumb the scale to speed student progress, or because such a system may not fully account for differences in students and subject matter. Virtual Gets Real.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Under such plans, the funding for a course taken by an individual student goes to the school or online company offering the course, often away from the student’s local district. They want them at school learning. It’s called “Course Access” or “Course Choice.” We don’t want to lose students. “We It’s their identity.”. (In

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