Are you ever too old to disrupt? What Penn Foster has been up to
You might be surprised to hear that more than 20,000 students graduated in 2014 with high school diplomas from a 125-year-old school based in Scranton, […]
You might be surprised to hear that more than 20,000 students graduated in 2014 with high school diplomas from a 125-year-old school based in Scranton, […]
Jan 28, 2015
On the heels of my predictions for education in 2015, activity around renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (also known as ESEA or No […]
Jan 23, 2015
Competency-Based Learning
This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. Last month, I wrote about the inevitable “sausage-making” that occurs when organizations try to cram an innovative and […]
Jan 22, 2015
Competency-Based Learning
This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. The running joke about higher education is that change doesn’t come eventually, but glacially. Much of academic inertia […]
Dec 8, 2014
Last week teacher preparation programs across the country received big news. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education proposed new regulations that would put more […]
Dec 3, 2014
This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. I smiled as a young research assistant asked me this because many higher education leaders who work on […]
Nov 7, 2014
In the wake of the Department of Education’s release of the new gainful employment regulations, which are intended to protect students from poor-performing career college […]
Nov 6, 2014
Sylvia Manning, former president of the regional accrediting agency, the Higher Learning Commission, who was also infamously embroiled in the closure of Altius Education, has […]
Nov 3, 2014
The term competency-based education (CBE) is a lot like the term disruption. It gets misused more frequently than it is deployed correctly. So when I […]
Oct 22, 2014
At the 16th annual FNESP (Fórum Nacional do Ensino Superior Privado), the largest gathering of all of the private universities in Brazil, I had the […]
Oct 1, 2014