Leslie Villegas recommends The End of Average

The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World that Values Sameness 

By Todd Rose (HarperOne, 2015)

A fellow researcher recommended this book to me after a conference session on COVID-related “learning loss.” My research focus is English learner education, one of the student groups most negatively impacted by the pandemic, so I was interested in what the data had to say. But as expected, English learners were not included in the data analysis at the session. This is because monolingual standardized assessments at the center of the American education system are designed to tell you what English learners don’t know, rather than what they do.