Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, has become a leading proponent of competency-based education, a way to award degrees based on testing and portfolios rather than ...

Usually you find a job or start a business that relies on those skills for which you hold a high degree of competency. Businesses typically place people in positions that take advantage of the ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...

When Krista Stalzer gave her class of fourth graders their first science assessment as part of a pilot program at her school in Epping, New Hampshire, she asked students to build a device that would ...

CORRECTIONS MAINTAIN THAT THESE PROBLEMS ARE NOTHING NEW. WHILE HE FEELS HE’S SHINING A LIGHT ON IT, THIS IS NOT A NEW PROBLEM TO THE STATE. NEWS NINE INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED THAT CRIMINALS WITH ...

Aaron B. Wright, left, appears Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Douglas County District Court. A Douglas County judge has ordered a competency evaluation for a man charged with fatally stabbing a 35-year ...

In the Vermont House Judiciary section of the legislative website, two bills dealing with competency are listed. H.251 was ...

A new poll found that most Americans support a mandatory mental competency test for politicians older than 75. The Economist/YouGov Poll, released this week, found that 76 percent of Americans ...

The 60-day New Mexico legislative session ended on Saturday, March 22, and 194 bills were passed out of 1,182 introduced. Here's a look at what public safety bills passed and what did not. This ...

America needs a new generation of leaders to renew our national strength and pride. It’s why I support term limits for members of Congress, and why I’ve called for mental competency tests for ...