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An article in The Wall Street Journal summarized a new report from The Carnegie Foundation describing how the foundation is looking to become more responsive to assessment  needs for all students.  An excerpt from the Journal article follows. The report itself cites BDEA several times for its work n the area of competency based education.

"Adding to the debate over whether learning should be judged by classroom time or skills mastered, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is pushing for a shift in perception toward its namesake innovation: the Carnegie Unit, otherwise known as the credit hour.

“The Carnegie Unit for the most part does its job well for what it was intended,” said Elena Silva, senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation and co-author of a report published on Thursday. “But there is a bigger job out there. We need to improve quality and measurement of learning…Our call to action is to improve the system.”