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Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education

Quality and Equity by Design NME

October 28, 2017

COMPETENCYWORKS

Competency-based learning is on the rise in high schools across America. This new report outlines four key issues – quality, equity, meeting students where they are, and policy – that are critical to enabling competency education to scale with quality and sustainability.

Designing for equity and quality is the only path forward to creating an education system that is effective for every student, not just for some. If we fail to do so, students will not receive the education they so deeply deserve and as a movement competency-based education may falter.

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