The American Board of Pediatrics’ new subspecialty training model aims to improve readiness for practice as well as ...

Health care industry boards are revisiting the benefits of a strict competency-based approach to their composition. This, given that multiple new regulatory and environmental challenges to the health ...

As the 2026-2027 academic year approaches, San Jacinto College is rolling out significant changes designed to meet the evolving needs of its student body. From the launch of a groundbreaking ...

Despite massive changes in society and technology since colonial times, one thing hasn’t changed much: the way we teach, test, and pass our students along to the next level—or into their adult working ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...

The NAHQ Healthcare Quality Competency Framework provides a structured, evidence-based approach to align individual competencies with today's realities, enabling organizations with a competent and ...

Paul LeBlanc certainly thinks so. He sees it as a realistic way to reverse the trend toward deepening socioeconomic inequality. Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No ...

Heather Nicholson considers her classroom a “modern-day, one-room schoolhouse.” On a May morning last school year, it was easy to see why. Elementary schoolers sat in one corner, learning Mandarin ...

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 ...

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

Competency-based education (CBE) turns the traditional approach on its head. First, instead of everyone getting the same lecture, CBE is about adapting the delivery of knowledge to the learner’s own ...