Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...

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 ...

EMMA BURRELL @goskagit Oct 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 0 LA CONNER — The La Conner School District received a visit Wednesday afternoon from a couple VIPs interested in learning more about the district’s ...

Personalized learning. Proficiency-based education. Mastery-based learning. Competency-based education. They’re all different terms that refer to a reimagining of how schools operate so that students ...

On Tuesday, I talked with Tim Knowles, the CEO of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, about replacing the century-old Carnegie unit of seat time with a mastery-based measurement ...

Nearly 20 years after founding a graduate program to grow tech-savvy K–12 leaders, Scott McLeod says there is still a long way to go. MCLEOD: Technology continues to move quite quickly, while in ...

Bonneville Joint School District 93 board trustees approved a parental review of locally-adopted metrics to measure literacy scores and granted a two-year extension on the district’s mastery-based ...

With a plethora of ed-tech tools at their disposal to enhance instruction and combat learning loss, educators must now use them to create a “mastery-based” learning model, according to Michael Horn, ...

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An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused, mastery-based learning, even with limited use. Subscribe to our ...