Arlington, VA, Nov. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ASCD, the nation's leading association for K–12 educator professional development, announced the publication of The Mastery Learning Handbook: A ...

We often mistake the "aha!" moment of a clear explanation for actual mastery. The feeling of learning can be a psychological illusion, but we can spot the difference.

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that the International Big Picture Learning Credential was developed by Big Picture Learning Australia with the help of researchers from the ...

As the nation’s public schools grapple with helping students overcome learning losses exacerbated by pandemic closures, a long-simmering movement toward competency-based education — sometimes called ...

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 ...

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make ...

One of the problems put forth by education researcher Benjamin S. Bloom was how to deal with the dramatically different student results produced by three different methods of training. Those methods ...

School is a game in many ways and so the rules create winners and losers. Points are earned by those who know how to play the game well and those who refuse to play it often find themselves not ...

Writing a negative blog post about “competency-based learning” is dangerous! After all, how can any sane educator be against children developing competencies? So, we need to be very clear: We are not ...