Make The Most Of The Momentum

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Make the most of the momentum

Let's prepare educators to harness personalized learning's potential

By Rebecca E. Wolfe and Lillian Pace

Categories: College- and career-ready standards, Personalization, Reaching all students

August 2019

Vol. 40 No. 4

On any given school day, the majority of students in the United States and many other countries experience the same kind of schooling as their parents — and even their parents’ parents. And yet, today’s students live in a world that looks vastly different. The voices demanding that we move our education system far beyond its 20th-century roots grow louder every year. Educators, parents, employers, and advocates in all corners of the education world are calling out the ways in which our prevailing systems devalue educators’ professionalism, sort and batch children according to their skin color and ZIP code, and turn the joy of learning into marching lockstep through tests and worksheets. A promising antidote to this grim outlook has risen in the past 10

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Authors

Rebecca E. Wolfe and Lillian Pace

Rebecca E. Wolfe (wolfer@knowledgeworks.org) is vice president for impact and improvement and Lillian Pace (pacel@knowledgeworks.org) is vice president of policy and advocacy at KnowledgeWorks.

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