Against Personalized Learning

Annie Murphy Paul

A couple of years ago, educator 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”: “Sprinkle the word into virtually any conversation or speech regarding education, and you’ll typically see at least a handful of heads nodding in the room in happy agreement." But this apparently benign approach, Riley goes on to argue, actually rests on several assumptions unsupported by evidence: [READ MORE HERE]