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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

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For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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Why Mastery Based Learning is a Good Option

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This could be a solution, if not for all students, at least for those who don’t excel under traditional teaching. Learning is personalized, based on school standards. In fact, in so many ways, it brings common sense back to education. Mastery-based learning used to be considered preparation-intensive.

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Can Personalized Learning Be Scaled to Ease Teacher Burdens and Close Achievement Gaps?

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Schools are confronting vast achievement gaps among students and an exhausted teaching force. Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. So many bright educators love teaching and love kids, but they're physically and emotionally exhausted. A single teacher can't do it all.