Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, has become a leading proponent of competency-based education, a way to award degrees based on testing and portfolios rather than ...

Usually you find a job or start a business that relies on those skills for which you hold a high degree of competency. Businesses typically place people in positions that take advantage of the ...

The skills gap is generating unprecedented attention -- and with good reason. Nearly 8 million Americans are unemployed and looking for work while an estimated 6 million jobs remain unfilled.

When Krista Stalzer gave her class of fourth graders their first science assessment as part of a pilot program at her school in Epping, New Hampshire, she asked students to build a device that would ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

ANDERSON, Ind. — The man accused of killing an Elwood police officer will get a competency hearing this spring. Carl Roy Webb Boards II could face the death penalty for the July 2022 murder of Ofc.

CORRECTIONS MAINTAIN THAT THESE PROBLEMS ARE NOTHING NEW. WHILE HE FEELS HE’S SHINING A LIGHT ON IT, THIS IS NOT A NEW PROBLEM TO THE STATE. NEWS NINE INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED THAT CRIMINALS WITH ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - A competency hearing for Shane Helmbrecht, the man charged with killing an Jenn Ward of Eau Claire in 2016, will continue next month in Eau Claire County Court. The hearing ...

In the Vermont House Judiciary section of the legislative website, two bills dealing with competency are listed. H.251 was ...

Purdue University has announced a new "AI working competency" requirement, the first of its kind at an institution of higher learning, for all undergraduate students on their main campus, Indianapolis ...

A Colorado law dealing with a defendant's mental competency that puts the state in compliance with a 1972 Supreme Court ruling is causing controversy. If evaluators determine a person is unlikely to ...