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Colleges Ask Government to Clarify Rules for Credit Based on Competency
Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire U., said the Education Department was "very positive" about his university's request to be eligible for federal student aid for its competency-based program.
February 11, 2013
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Forty years after Regents College became the first in the nation to award degrees based on proof of prior learning, competency-based education, as its model became known, may finally be on the verge of federal approval.
Within days, the U.S...
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