U.S. News & World Report – Preston Cooper
“For decades, the progression of the American dream was fairly straightforward: Graduate high school, go to college and get a job. But new developments in higher education may upend that traditional progression. In time, the pathway could become: Learn a skill, get a job, learn another skill while working, get another job or promotion, learn another skill and so on. Instead of a traditional, time-based model, where students carry a specified number of credit-hours for eight semesters, a new concept in higher education is the competency-based model, where students stay in school for as long as it takes to learn a particular skill.”(more)