Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants.

School districts around the country are adopting personalized learning—a pedagogy often described as a way to encourage learning that is individualized, differentiated and student-driven through technology. To help teachers implement the learning model, schools and districts are increasingly paying top-dollar for specialized consultants. But those investments don’t always pay off. At Fulton and other districts looking to consultants, academic achievement dipped in some schools after the changes made with input from the consultants.

Now, some educators—and consultants—are calling for edtech consulting firms to be held accountable for whether or not their million-dollar advice translates into improved, measurable learning outcomes.

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