School of One Revolutionizes Traditional Classroom Model “There
are things we hold near and dear about what school is, but we’re
asking people to reimainge it,” said Christopher Rush, co-
founder of a revolutionary new learning system called School of
One. So imagine this: A student arrives in school in the morning
and answers five questions that will be calculated in a
customized algorithm to figure out what she’ll be doing that
day. That algorithm will decide which teacher she’ll work with,
her level of learning based on what she learned the previous
day, and her specific activities. The system completely subverts
the traditional classroom model of one teacher for 25- 30
students per classroom. And each student learns in different
modalities throughout the day: individually with computer
software, with groups, with a virtual tutor, with a live tutor,
and so on. “There are so many ways that kids can learn,” Rush
said. “It could be the best way is with a teacher, but that’s
not the only way. There have to be c