CONWAY — Fred Bramante may have been a little ahead of his time, but the founder and owner of Daddy’s Junky Music Stores, who served on the state Board of Education from 1992 to 1996 and ran four times for governor of New Hampshire, is smiling a lot these days. He’s being widely credited as being the founder of competency-based learning.

Competency-based learning, according to Bramante’s website, “refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating that they have learned the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education.”

SAU 9 - Competency-based learning

Fred Bramante gives SAU 9 two enthusiastic thumbs up for the direction it’s heading with competency-based learning. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)

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