Experimenting with Competency - Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Education will allow at least 40 colleges to experiment with competency-based education and prior learning assessment, granting them a waiver from certain rules that govern federal financial aid. The department last week notified colleges that had successfully applied to participate in the latest round of “experimental sites,” which observers said is more expansive than previous ones. “This is much more complicated than any experiment they have done,” said Amy Laitinen, deputy director of the New America Foundation's higher education program and a former official at the department and White House. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/13/feds-move-ahead-experimental-sites-competency-based-education