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Good Morning,

I think one of the threads that ties our work together is the notion that technology allows us for the first time to individualize a system of mass education and to make public policy around that idea.  Two quick examples: 1) at the level of student learning, adaptive technology, of the kind Bernie Gifford has pioneered, makes it possible for software to adapt to student strengths and weaknesses... from learning styles to disabilities 2) at the level of state accountability, we can now collect 'learning portfolios' for every learner in the state and match accomplishments with the opportunities to learn provided in a variety of learning environment... including schools.  In this system, it seems that we are less likely to prescribe structures and processes and more likely to measure outcomes.  That said, what remains for the state is to insure adequate access to these kinds of learning resources across the population.  I imagine we will discuss what this means in more detail later.