3.0.0 2608 2022-11-01T13:49:38Z 2022-11-01T14:29:42Z Senate S 2019-10-16 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-10-16T19:14:50Z Advancing Competency-Based Education Act of 2019 116 4706 HR 2019-10-16 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS 2019-10-16 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2019-10-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001076 Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] Maggie Hassan D NH N Education Academic performance and assessments Advisory bodies Congressional oversight Education programs funding Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Higher education Minority education Performance measurement Student records Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2019-10-16 Introduced in Senate 2020-12-10T18:41:50Z Advancing Competency-Based Education Act of 2019

This bill requires the Department of Education to select institutions of higher education (IHE) to voluntarily carry out competency-based education demonstration projects.

A competency-based education program is an alternative postsecondary program that measures academic progress and credential attainment by the assessment of student learning and the mastery of competencies instead of, or in addition to, credit hours.

A participating IHE must take certain transparency and accountability measures including (1) providing information comparing the success of students in competency-based education programs to similar students in traditional programs; (2) submitting to an annual evaluation of each competency-based education program to determine quality, progress of students toward earning a degree, and students' ability to pay off loans and find employment upon graduation; and (3) aligning their courses with career pathways and the needs of local employers in order to prepare students for the workforce.

The bill also establishes the Competency-Based Education Council to study the ongoing innovation and development of competency-based education programs and to develop recommendations for the authorization of such programs.

]]> Advancing Competency-Based Education Act of 2019 Display Title Advancing Competency-Based Education Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Advancing Competency-Based Education Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize competency-based education demonstration projects. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2608is/xml/BILLS-116s2608is.xml 2019-10-16 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.