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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 2 minutes Standards-based grading (SBG) has been ingrained in the American education system for over a century. It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses.

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 2 minutes Standards-based grading (SBG) has been ingrained in the American education system for over a century. It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses.

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Could the medical classroom do with a healthy dose of politics?

LSE Higher Education Blog

These include opening traditional education systems to review and criticism, increasing the attention paid to the hidden curriculum, formal recognition of critical thinking as an essential dimension in the medical educational process, and increasing participatory learning throughout medical school.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

Long-term economic forces will increasingly drive demand for more rapid reskilling than our current system can support. Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria. Here’s a guy who was halfway through medical school when he arrived. But situations change. While the town is the home of St.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

Education and training are key elements in such policies and should constitute a crucial part of this dialogue with the aim of breaking the hold which DfE centralisation has had particularly over the last 30 years. This has already been adopted by the devolved government in Wales, and Scotland is moving in a similar direction.

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

He has a desire to go to medical school. He takes the bus two-and-a-half hours a day, he goes to school, and he is essentially teaching himself how to be a student. We were able to nurture Nedrich in our educational system. What’s exciting about Nedrich is that he never realized he was a good student.