IN A CENTURY WHERE ONE SIZE FITS ALL has evolved into a mass-market competition of customized choice, a growing demand for individualized learning has also emerged. Like any other modern convenience, education can benefit from technological advancement, and only technology can provide such personalized instruction affordably.

In Education Transformation, Ron Packard, CEO and founder of K¹², America’s largest K¹² online learning provider, describes the kinds of technology-based innovations that are beginning to transform K¹² education—the only major industry still left behind on the technology transformation curve. And it’s not just about computers in classrooms; it’s about using technology to deliver individualized solutions for every child.

Customized learning plans like K¹²’s can:

• • remediate kids who fall behind,

• • engage the hard-to-reach,

• • stem the flow of dropouts,

• • stretch the reach of advanced learners able to rocket ahead,

• • refine the role of teachers to focus on higher-impact activities,

• • prepare students to compete in the ever “flatter” world market and workplace,

• • and, complete it all within overstretched budgets in a fixed amount of time.

In a world where human capital has never been more valuable, our nation’s children—our future—cannot afford to fall further behind. Education Transformation demonstrates how America’s system of learning can evolve—rapidly and at scale—to meet students’ increasingly diverse needs by tapping into the same innovations that have revolutionized the way we work, shop, connect, play, and consume entertainment over the past two decades.