Leadership

Abstract

Recently, many education funders, nonprofits, and associations have rallied around the concept of personalized learning. However, argues PDK’s Joshua Starr, it’s a mistake to describe personalized learning as a whole new educational model. If the goal is to make schools more responsive to students’ needs, let’s focus on the specific and concrete steps that teachers and administrators can take to get to know their students well, assess them carefully, provide them with varied materials, and arrange staff assignments flexibly.