Michael Horn argues that K-12 education is built on a factory model that batches students together, teaches to the class instead of individuals, and advances kids by time rather than mastery. The system prioritizes standardization over what students actually need.
Today, our education system isn't student centric at all. It's a monolithic one built to standardize the way we teach and test. It's literally modeled after a factory. Today, we batch students up, send them into classrooms, and we teach to the class, not the individual. We actually have students that progress right now through units, subjects, grades based on time, not based on their actual mastery of learning.
