The skills gap is generating unprecedented attention -- and with good reason. Nearly 8 million Americans are unemployed and looking for work while an estimated 6 million jobs remain unfilled.

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 ...

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 ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A competency hearing has been granted for 21-year-old Terryon Thomas, the TikTok star with millions of followers accused of murdering a Baton Rouge therapist, as his defense ...

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 ...