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Three tips for creating competency-based systems

It is very easy to spend months, or $$$$$ on a competency-based program, and end up with very little to show for it. A competency is (per Rodney Rogers of Portland State University) a persistent pattern of behaviour resulting from a cluster of knowledge, skills, abilities, and motivations. The persistence of those behaviors is an [...]

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Who will have well-paid, secure work in the new global economy?

We live in a global economy where a single ability distinguishes the people who will always have well-paid secure work, from those who will not. This is the ability to think well.* Can we create world-class thinkers in the schools of the United States, at a time when nations who are our economic competitors are [...]

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