Online platforms like Khan Academy are already starting to flip classrooms across the country
so that students can learn at their own pace. But some think it might
not be too long before technology pushes schools to personalize
education in even more structural ways, so that students are no longer
grouped by age, but by competency.
Noting advances in educational technology –- from online platforms
that deliver instruction to programs that analyze student learning data
-– Jeff Livingston, senior vice president of College and Career
Readiness at McGraw-Hill,
said Thursday he thinks that in the next five to six years, schools and
educators are going to have to rethink age-grouping as the primary
organizing principle for K-12 education, especially at the high-school
level.
In a virtual roundtable with reporters, he said, “What does it mean to be a 9th grader or 10th
grader beyond being a certain age? … It doesn’t make sense that all the
15-year-olds are in this grade and all the 16-year-olds are in that
grade. It should be where your interests, your skills and your mastery
of certain concepts takes you.”
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