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 ...

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 ...

"Competency-based” education appears to be this year’s answer to America’s higher education challenges, judging from this week's news in Washington. Unlike MOOCs (last year’s solution), there is, ...

Educators are very familiar with “soft skills,” or those that are peripheral to the core curriculum—nice additions if you have the time. Associating “soft” with a skill often means it is often ...

BRATTLEBORO — A competency hearing is planned for a man accused of biting another man's chin after jumping out of a blanket completely naked in a parking garage. In court Tuesday, Windham Superior ...

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