Our schools need to be places where learning matters,

Proactive measures often are met with resistance and criticism.

the real message of the Coleman and Jencks studies of equal educational opportunities: not that the school is powerless but that the family is powerful.

adaptive learning models as one approach along a spectrum that enables personalization."

The CogBooks platform also supports an adaptive approach that takes the student on a pre-programmed path in response to his or her input or pre-test results. The system also incorporates consideration of the best learning sequences, based on a student's responses, knowledge profile, learning-style preferences and even context

The root of the problem is not the adaptive technology itself so much as the belief that a “good” education is entirely quantifiable and therefore manageable by computer.

more important to have the dispositions and the skills to create our own educational opportunities, not be trained to wait for opportunities that someone else has selected for delivery.

can explore almost every interest or passion in depth on our own or with others, it’s crucially more important to have the dispositions a