As a high school and middle school teacher, I am in favor of the controversial decision to prioritize third-grade competency through state equivalency tests. While this approach may not be popular, it ...

I’m trying to square two things that happened last week. The Nellie Mae Foundation issued a great report called (MMW), a visit to 11 cool schools. The other event was a Facebook dialog with ...

We often hear from the Operations team saying, “we don’t get the right people for the job”, complaining about the HR team. The HR team in turn says, “the operations’ team did not know what skills were ...

In my last post I shared what I thought was the greatest threat to competency based learning scaling across America: “The greatest challenge is our accountability systems which are deeply rooted in ...

Global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company's new resource explains that functional competencies provide the greatest possible return when developed to address specific functional and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The answer is yes. Although the term competence does not have a universally accepted definition, many consider ...