Sent to the Sunshine
State News, March 11.
Re:"Senate Green Lights Competency-Based Education Program"
Missing from the
discussion of the Florida Senate bill supporting competency-based education
(CBE) is the fact that there is no hard evidence supporting it. The following statement about CBE is from a National Governor's Association report, a document that aggressively promotes CBE: "Although
an emerging research base suggests that CBE is a promising model, it includes
only a few rigorous evaluations and analyses of current and ongoing CBE pilots
and similar programs" (p. 6).
Competency-based
education is very expensive and time-consuming, and will change education
drastically. Application without evidence that it will help our children is
unacceptable.
Stephen Krashen
Good blog
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