All students deserve a great education, one that affords every opportunity for them to grow into knowledgeable and successful adults. To date, efforts to improve education have operated on a model of mass production, assuming--wrongly--that what works for some students must work for all. To change that model, students and their parents, teachers,…

The cumulative record represents a potential case study in miniature. If education is to continue verbalizing its concern for the individual student, it can prove this concern by providing a systematic procedure for insuring that the individual does not become an obscure generalization based on averages computed from groups. (Author)