[Calvin Locke]

If a student could demonstrate proficiency with a certain set of ideas and processes, why not let him or her move on to more advanced ones?

Because it's not fair to those that don't (and especially to the subset that never will) demonstrate proficiency...

[umgud]

Education at all levels will evolve and brick and mortar ed will substantially die except for its role as babysitters.

[arthurus]

It is a job for ObviousMan.

[Jan_Sobieski]

2 Words: Home School!

Khan Academy is an incredible supplement to home school. This way our children can have a foundation like Isaac Newton of Christianity and Science.

[lafroste]

If a student could demonstrate proficiency with a certain set of ideas and processes, why not let him or her move on to more advanced ones?

My university had such a system of test out and I used it test out of Organic Chemistry 101 my freshman year. Anyway, fast forward to graduation time several years later. My diploma was DENIED because I did not have "credit" for chem 101, which was a required course. And my degree was in Chemical Engineering! It took an act by the Dean of the college of engineering to waive that requirement in my case, but I was always baffled that his subordinates were too stupid and drone-like to keep the issue from ever getting to him in the first place.