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In developing their plans, states should adopt a sense of urgency around certain policy areas: establishing a competency-based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material,providing a robust offering of high quality courses from multiple providers,ending the archaic practice of seat-time,funding education based on achievement instead of attendance,funding the student instead of the system,eliminating the all-too-common practice by school districts of prohibiting students from enrolling with approved providers, either by withholding funding or credit, andbreaking down the barriers, such as teacher-student ratios and class size limits, to effective, high quality instruction.

Good overview of our WISElearn concept