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These schools prepare young people for an industrial world that no longer exists. Rigid class structures are the norm.  \nLittle, if any, attention is given to the social and emotional skills that even the business community has listed as top priorities for its workforce. For decades, policy discussions have focused on the shortcomings of these factory-model schools that  \ndo not prepare students for current and future work, personalize their opportunities for learning, nor do they nurture them to reach their potential. While there are shining examples, gains have been slow to come in schools nationwide to make learning relevant, productive, and fulfilling for each learner.  \nOne reason we are stuck in outdated classrooms is that too many school systems are frozen in sameness – the same books, the same lessons, the same pace, the same treatment of each learner. Yet, if there isone takeaway from the burgeoning learning sciences research, it is that no two of us learn in exactly the same  \nLearner Variability Is the Rule, Not the Exception | 2  \nEdging into the conversation now is the devastated socially and emotionally in school.  \nterm “learner variability.” It is a recognition  \nthat all students differ, and learning sciences Todd Rose, director of the Mind, Brain, & research shows that these differences matter Education Program at the Harvard Graduate for learning. In some cases, the term is tightly School of Education, and cofounder of defined to mean any student struggling with Populace, a social impact organization, a learning difference that rubs up against the is leading path-breaking research on the expectations of the sameness of school. But, “science of the individual1,” providing learner variability, as defined here, embraces guideposts to broker an understanding of both students who the depth and breadth of learner variability.  \nstruggle and those who He and his colleagues  \nthrive. Why? Because According to Rose, the context argue that for those of the natural variability seeking to address the  \nfound in each person, principle of individuality “asserts needs of the individual, in school and beyond. that individual behavior cannot two notions exist: 1)  \nthe object of interest is  \nLearner variability be explained or predicted apart the individual, not the  \nis the young person from a particular situation, and statistical average; and, worhios lleivearsniinngpovertto spyea, k the influence of a situation ehumanremarki ndivablyiuaarible. English and may not yet cannot be specified without The science of the havknole bacdge tgerounnabl reference to the individual ai ivoidrdui anl depeg to Rno,, on comprehension of a experiencing it.” pathways and context.2  \nreading passage. Or, the student who already  \nhas the skills to excel at a pace beyond the curriculum and is bored because traditional methods of instruction do not engage her or meet her needs. It is the student who has experienced trauma in a single event or on a day-to-day basis. Learner variability is the learner whose learning difference, color,  \nethnicity, or gender makes them susceptible to  \nstereotype threat and low expectations. It’s the learner with working memory, decoding, or attention challenges who retreats into silence  \nor acts unruly out of fear  \nthey will be asked a question they are not yet ready to answer. It also defines the student who excels at classwork but is  \nFor example, initial thought heralded a  \nsingle progression for developing strong reading skills. Those who did not succeed were thought to have delays. More current research, though, shows that multiple pathways exist to learn to read and that those children may not have delays, but were prog","cbCaijAPTvEcHMit","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijAPTvEcHMit","pdf",549708,"English","# Learner variability as the rule\n## Limits of one-size-fits-all schooling\n## The principle of individuality\n## Multiple pathways and context\n## Emotion and learning","[{\"question\":\"Why do one-size-fits-all school models under-serve students?\",\"answer\":\"They use rigid class structures, the same materials, the same pace, and the same treatment for every learner. 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