By making the general curriculum the reference point for all considerations, The New Era proposals set forth by the President's Commission are devoid of all considerations of individual differences. Rather than tailoring IEP's to the particular learning characteristics of individual children, it is suggested that one kind of good, scientifically and research-based instruction fits all. In fact, IEP's are reduced to being guides that have no contractual value. The individual is of so little relevance that assessment is hardly needed except for that assessment which measures success and failure in the general curriculum. Ability-achievement discrepancies are abandoned and with them the last vestige of individual differences.