MTC in the News

DatePublicationTitle
4/13/2025Cult of Pedagogy PodcastA Close Look at Competency-Based Learning
3/4/2025ForbesPreparing High School Students for a World Dominated by AI
3/3/2025The Washington PostWhy Not Get Rid of Grades?
3/3/20251EdTech ConsortiumSix Steps for a Successful Credentialing Program
2/19/2025LinkedInThe Story Behind Pioneering the Nation’s First Mastery-Based Transcript
12/18/2024Routledge PressThe Playbook for Self-Directed Learning
12/6/2024Getting SmartA New Infrastructure for Learning Credentials
12/4/2024Getting Smart PodcastLaura Slover and Mike Flanagan on Skills for the Future
12/1/2024AASA, The School Superintendents AssociationThe Move to Mastery Transcripts
11/14/2024The AtlanticHow the Ivy League Broke America
10/11/2024Digital Education DialoguesEp.8 Assessment and credentials
9/26/2024The Future of EducationHopes and Dreams Behind ETS's Acquisition of Mastery Transcript Consortium
8/27/2024Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (ATLIS) Talking Technology with ATLIS Pocast Episode
8/26/2024TransformEd With StepUpBeyond Grades: Revolutionizing Student Achievement with MTC
8/1/2024Digital PromiseThe Promise of Micro-credentials and Learning and Employment Record Technologies for Youth and K-12 Schools
6/20/2024The EdgeThe Edge: Behind the $800-million deal for an unsexy ed-tech company
6/17/2024National Association of Independent SchoolsWhat Does It Mean to Be College Prep?
5/20/2024EIN PresswirePolygence Partners with Mastery Transcript Consortium to Launch a Certified Learning Record for High School Students
5/20/2024Pathways HighA Feather in our Pioneering Cap
5/19/2024Future Learning Design PodcastThe Future of Assessment - Special Episode with Melbourne Metrics, Rethinking Assessment and Mastery Transcript Consortium
5/16/2024The JobOn-Demand Human Connection
5/15/2024Getting SmartSkills Transcripts at Scale: Why The ETS & MTC Partnership is a Big Deal
5/15/2024ETSETS and Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC)
Join Forces to Scale Skills Transcripts
5/1/2024Tang Institute at AndoverCentering Student Voices: How Student Experiences Can Drive the School Change Process
4/15/2024MediumEnvisioning an alive education for an alive future
3/9/2024The 74As Schools Embrace Mastery Learning and Confront Challenges of GPAs and College Admissions, Consortium Creates New 'Bridge' Transcript
2/1/2024CRPEA future beyond test scores alone: Innovative schools need support to measure other learning outcomes
1/25/2024Zip06.comSlate School Continues to Grow with Development Grant
1/18/2024Time MagazineThe Way We Assess What Kids Are Learning Is Starting to Change
1/3/2024Journal of Educational AdministrationCommentary: Leading for deeper learning: why a human vision of schooling demands a human vision of leadership
9/9/2023Teachers Going GradelessThe Mastery Transcript w/ Mike Flanagan
8/1/2023Teachers Going GradelessCan Standards-based Grading Grade Less?
7/20/2023The JournalAurora Institute Report Outlines Recommendations for K–12 Next Gen Credentials
7/11/2023GOADesigning a Graduate Profile: Four Essential Steps
6/26/2023Aurora InstituteGoing Beyond the Traditional: Next Gen Credentials and Flexible Learning Pathways
6/22/2023The Aurora InstituteReinventing the Traditional HS Diploma, Mastery Transcript Consortium
6/13/2023Aurora Institute, CompetencyWorksRethinking the High School Transcript for the Future of Learning
5/18/2023The 74 MillionCarnegie, ETS Team Up to Develop Competency-Based Assessments
5/11/2023Getting SmartRural Places, Big Visions – a visit to Northern Cass School District
5/10/2023John Guilfoyle Public RelationsNipmuc Regional HIgh School Pilots Mastery Transcript Program
5/1/20231EdTechMastery Transcript Consortium Earns CLR Certification
3/9/2023Yahoo! NewsMastery Learning Backers Launch New HS Transcript to help Grads apply to College
2/15/2023The International EducatorThe Mastery Transcript
12/8/2022Fordham's 2022 WonkathonInstitutionalism, not policy, is the biggest barrier to reinventing high schools
9/19/2022Aurora InstituteCBE in Practice: Grading
8/30/2022Cleveland MagazineHawken Head of School Scott Looney is Changing Cleveland Education
8/4/2022The Seattle TimesSome WA Schools opt for "show what you know' system over letter grades
7/27/2022Education ReimaginedPathways High: Design Thinking in Action
6/23/2022KnowledgeWorksCapturing and Communicating Learning Requires More Than Time-Based Measures
2/7/2022World Economic Forum4 trends that will shape the future of higher education
1/24/2022Phi Delta KappanPossible futures: Toward a new grammar of schooling
1/21/2022NJ.com5 big things we must do to improve N.J.’s COVID-encumbered schools in 2022 | Opinion
12/29/2021New York PostCritics lambast coddling schools for eliminating ‘D’ and ‘F’ grades
12/29/2021Real Clear EducationFive Education Resolutions for the New Year
12/3/2021EdSourceWhy some California school districts are changing how students earn grades: Mastery-based learning seen as a way to improve equity
10/27/2021FutureEdThe Movement to Replace High School Grades
10/20/2021Washington PostA Crusade to End Grading in High Schools
10/20/2021International School Leader MagazineRecognising Personalised Learning
8/31/2021ForbesVaccinating Education: An Interview with Sal Khan
8/18/2021KnowledgeWorksUngrading: Focusing on Feedback and Learner Agency
5/8/2021The Student LifeThe 5Cs can lead the way in grading reform and alter academic incentives for students
5/6/2021Education NextDon’t Ban Virtual School. Improve It.
4/15/2021TES (The Times Educational Supplement)Why are we so reluctant to let go of exams?
3/24/2021Education ReimaginedLet’s Create Assessments Worthy of Powerful Learning
3/01/2021Challenge SuccessQ&A with Mastery Transcript Consortium
2/11/2021FE NewsAssessment — Time for a rethink?
1/10/2021Maize Books Wad-Ja-Get? The Grading Game in American Education
1/9/2021Getting SmartHow Portable Learning Records Will Unlock Education and Employment Opportunities
1/04/2021Forbes How Portable Learning Records Will Unlock Education And Employment Opportunities
1/1/2021NAIS Podcast TranscriptNew View EDU: Julia Griffin, Mastery School of Hawken
12/22/2020Teachers Going GradelessPatterns Broken: The Opportunity of the Mastery Transcript
11/20/2020Getting Smart
Digital Credentials: A Better Way to Capture and Communicate Learning
11/15/2020ForbesDigital Credentials: A Better Way To Capture And Communicate Learning
11/19/2020ForbesEight Ways New Schools Innovate
10/12/2020Getting SmartFinding Your Entry Point to Mastery Learning
8/17/2020ForbesHow Micro-Certification Can Fill Skill Gaps In The New Normal
7/30/2020The 74Cleveland’s ‘Mastery’ Hopes Fade as COVID-19 Surges and Classes Are Forced Online
7/26/2020Wisconsin State JournalIndependent Madison charter Milestone Democratic School designed 'by youth, for youth'
7/14/2020Getting SmartMastery Learning in Action
7/6/2020Harvard GazetteWill coronavirus change college admissions?
6/4/2020Gulf NewsHow UAE schools are rethinking education to stay relevant
5/16/2020Honolulu Civil BeatThe Virus That Broke The Classroom
4/24/2020The Washington PostAfter coronavirus, schools should get creative in finding teachers more time with students
3/11/2020ForbesCompetency Tracking Tools Are Overdue
2/7/2020ForbesHelping Grads Tell Their Story: The Case For Extended Transcripts
1/21/2020ForbesShow What You Know: A Parent’s Guide To The Global Shift To Competency
1/2/2020Aurora Institute, CompetencyWorksReinventing Crediting and Transcripts (Part 2): Considerations for Making Change
12/31/2019Your Teen MagazineWhat is a Mastery School? A Unique High School Experience
12/30/2019Aurora Institute, CompetencyWorksReinventing Crediting and Transcripts (Part 1): Learning from Experience
12/17/2019The 74Best Education Articles of 2019: Our 19 Most Popular Stories About Students and Schools This Year
9/18/2019Routledge PressReinventing Crediting for Competency Based Education: The Mastery Transcript Consortium Model and Beyond (Book)
7/30/2019ForbesFour Mega Trends Reshaping Global Learning
7/29/2019Inside Higher EdTranscript Revolution
7/22/2019CompetencyWorksReinventing High School: Measuring What Matter Most
7/14/2019The 74The Mastery Transcript Consortium has been Developing a Gradeless Transcript for College Admissions. This fall it gets its first test.
6/19/2019ForbesHow To Fix Higher Education: Seven Keys
3/3/2019Crain’s Cleveland BusinessHawken's Mastery School is a throwback
2/15/2019Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland.comHawken buys Montessori campus in University Circle for new Mastery School
2/14/2019ForbesHow Blockchain Is Helping Dallas Students Tell Their Story
9/6/2018ForbesHow Pushback Against Ed Reform Is Used To Push Ed Reform Forward
5/21/2018ForbesShow What You Know: The Shift To Competency
5/7/2018CompetencyWorksMastery Credits? Mastery Transcript?
3/18/2018Washington Post Op EdCan grade grubbers handle the rise of mastery education?
2/8/2018ForbesHow To Be Human In An AI Future
1/5/2018EdutopiaWill Letter Grades Survive?
12/17/2017Getting SmartNo more A's, B's, C's? That's what some private schools are talking about.
9/14/2017Getting SmartSchool Consortium Proposes a Better Transcript
5/11/2017Washington Post Op EdWhy getting rid of grades would help rich students - and hurt poor ones
5/10/2017Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland.comHawken School leads effort to develop non-graded high school transcript
5/9/2017Inside Higher EdA Plan to Kill High School Transcripts…and Transform College Admissions
3/1/2017GrantLichtman.comMajor Education Game Changer Launches: The Mastery Transcript Consortium
3/1/2017World Leadership SchoolMastery Transcript Consortium: Big Idea to Upend College Admissions

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