A couple of years ago, Benjamin Riley kicked up a fuss with a blog post provocatively titled “Don’t Personalize Learning.” Personalized learning, of course, is a very popular notion; as he slyly noted, it’s “a head-nodder phrase”:
But this apparently benign approach, Riley goes on to argue, actually rests on several assumptions unsupported by evidence. (Riley is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Deans for Impact, and a vocal advocate of applying learning science to education; here’s a video of a panel I moderated for the organization last fall.)
