In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Competency-Based Education

This paper, written for the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, discusses how equity can be an intentional design feature for competency-based education models. Competency-based education has the potential to create a system designed for every student to succeed, but that system needs to be built around equity. This paper seeks to explore, clarify, and develop an initial framework on how to approach and improve equity within a personalized, competency-based system.