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 ...

Inside the rise of competency-based education and what it means for today's learners.

One of the most popular topics these days in education is mastery learning—the idea that the pace of a class should match what each student is ready to learn, as a way to ensure they’re really ...

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. At least not with her eyes. She spoke under her breath. Whispers of words I couldn’t usually hear. She is one of the many students who I remember because despite my ...

When Virginia’s Prince William County school district switched to standards-based grading nearly a decade ago, middle school social studies teacher Erin Merrill wanted an easier way to keep track of ...

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Legend.org will operate as Mastery.org, helping schools turn authentic student work into trusted records of learning that go ...

“While we aren’t necessarily able to physically touch each other yet, the presence of another has truly just been phenomenal.” Students return to John Wister Elementary School in Philadelphia’s ...