From Timothy Knowles, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in their November newsletter:
Across the nation, young people are raising bright red flags about their education. Less than half of students say their schoolwork challenges them. Fewer than two in 10 strongly agree that what they are learning is important, engaging, or relevant. Half of Generation Z feels unprepared for the future and millions of students are voting with their feet by attending school sporadically or not at all.
One way to heed these clear calls from students for much more rigorous, engaging and relevant education is to leverage Competency-Based Education (CBE). While CBE is not a new idea—dating back to the first blacksmiths, if not the beginning of human existence—it has never penetrated classrooms and schools at broad-scale. At its core, CBE is designed to help students progress at their own pace, focusing on mastery of skills and knowledge, rather than accounting for learning based on time spent in a classroom or on a digital platform.
Continue reading in the November newsletter.