In math, the best way to fill in learning gaps is to individualize the curriculum and ensure students have mastered the skills and concepts that are prerequisite to what they’re learning now. Age of ...

The mastery-based pilot program is meant to help students fully understand subject matter before moving on to other topics. Indiana lawmakers approved a measure that would, in part, allow schools that ...

This item originally appeared on the Curriculum Matters blog. A lot has been written about the importance of reading proficiently by 3rd grade. We’ve heard the familiar debates about whether it’s ...

Maryn Petersen doesn’t have textbooks in her class at Kuna Middle School. She doesn’t often sit at a desk taking notes of a teacher’s lecture or reading a chapter and answering the question in the ...

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The COVID pandemic created a huge amount of tragedy and chaos for us. Some chaos transformed into social and behavioral changes that will remain after people have been vaccinated and resume their more ...

In March 2015, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed into law H110, launching the state’s initial foray into a new and transformative mastery-based system of K-12 education. In just more than two years, ...

If Harvard’s aim is to provide a truly top-tier education, there is no reason why it cannot expect more than 20 percent of ...

In many ways, the Mastery School is a return to Hawken School's roots. In February, Hawken announced plans to open a new high school in University Circle in August 2020. The school will include a ...

As we return to primarily teaching face-to-face courses this fall, many of us are considering what this transition will mean for our teaching and our students. Will we just wave a magic wand, and ...