Merry Sillitoe: Author, Education Reform

Category: Systemic Change in K-12 Schools

  • Let’s Fix Schools for Our Children

            The solution to our educational crisis is Competency-Based Learning and Promotion (CBLP), which is simply explained as students moving on to the next level of learning when they have mastered the current level in a particular subject. Tragic casualties of our current system are students who become bored and check out of school as well…

  • Big Problems in K-12 Schools

    We need a revolutionary change! Public education in the United States of America is in big trouble. Our children are not learning what they need to learn. According to global assessments, they have fallen behind children in many other countries. In 2018, our fifteen-year-old students ranked behind thirty other countries in mathematics.  National learning assessments show that fewer…

  • Bored and/or Frustrated Kids

    With personalized CBLP, students move on to the next group of standards when they understand and demonstrate mastery in their current set of standards.  No waiting in boredom for everyone else to catch up.  No requirement to tread water while turning in busywork. Bored students are prone to act out, disturb others in the classroom,…