Schaef: It’s time to redesign academic standards.
It was a blue sky kind of day in Boise, Idaho. Kelly Brady, then-director of the Idaho Mastery Education Network, took the stage. Before a roomful of hundreds of educators, she began to tell the story of Idaho’s journey toward delivering on the promise of mastery-based education, in which advancement is based on demonstrated learning, rather than time, and “success is the only option.” In the middle of that heartfelt address, she did what... Read More
