Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots,… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept. — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
