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The Tyranny of College Admissions: Why It’s So Challenging to Have Real Change in K-12 Education

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By: Jon Alfuth



Kathleen Farley from Google recently wrote about what it would mean to shift from traditional credit hours in K-12 education to skills-first standards. I’ve long thought a shift like this is needed and necessary. But, in my years of work around personalized, competency-based education policy, I continue to see such efforts run into a persistent and steadfast roadblock: college admissions requirements. Without a substantial shift in college admissions requirements, widespread ad

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