Even as the economy rebounded toward full employment, states continue to wrestle with the problem that a high school diploma alone still fails to set most young people up for good, high-paying jobs to the extent it did in previous […]


Competency-based education (CBE), in which students demonstrate mastery of subject matter before advancing, is popping up in legislation and on state board agendas. One CBE-related bill in Florida was enacted in 2016, two were enacted in 2017 (in Utah and […]