12:45pm - 1:15pm
The End of Average
Todd Rose
Founder, Center for Individual Opportunity
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Every day we
are measured against averages, and we're judged on how far from
them we fall. Indeed, measuring ourselves against the average is so
ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. But
what if that's not the best way to judge success and failure? In Todd
Rose's new book The End of Average, he demonstrates that no one is average. And that, he ar-
gues, has enormous practical consequences. While we know people learn in distinctive ways,
schools and businesses have been designed around the so-called "average person." This mod-
el ignores our differences and fails at recognizing talent. It's time to change it.
Closing Program
Thursday, March 10
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
12:30pm - 12:45pm
Opening Remarks
Paul Reville
Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Policy and Administration at
the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founding Director of
HGSE's Education Redesign Lab
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