Required Reading on Competency Based Education (CBE)

Blogger Peter Green doe a great job of summarizing what CBE is really about (hint, its not students needs) HERE and gives a live example of how that plays out HERE.

Author and special education teacher Nancy Bailey provides a good overview of CBE and how it is neither personalized nor geared toward higher order thinking HERE.

A look into what a CBE classroom might look like in the future from Gadflyonthewall HERE.

NYSED, in their announcement HERE to award their most recent 3-8 testing contract to Questar has tipped their hand that CBE is the direction that they are heading.

Pro-Education Reform organization Achieve has provided THIS TOOLKIT to help “sell CBE to all stakeholders.

 

Required Reading on Competency Based Education (CBE)