Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed

Author: Chris Sturgis & Katherine Casey

Competency Works

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The role of public education has never been more important — it is the bedrock of democracy. The failure to provide an equitable public education that enables equal access to opportunity unravels the American dream. Competency-based education holds promise as a uniquely powerful model for fostering equity, but only if equity is an intentional design feature embedded in the culture, structure and pedagogy.