What'll It Take for Mastery-Based Learning to Deliver?
Date postedAugust 19, 2025
By Frederick M. Hess, AEI (from August 6, 2025)
As regular readers know, I’ve long held both that American education is overdue for a rethink AND that most “reform” is oversold. Finding the sweet spot, as Michael Horn, Julie Squire, and I note in our new book, School Rethink 2.0, requires focusing on rubber-meets-road change. Rethink 2.0 offers accounts from leaders doing that work, and I’m delighted to speak with one of them today.Scott Ellis is the founder and CEO of MasteryTrack, which provides consulting and prototype software to support the implementation of mastery learning. Ellis previously served as CEO of The Learning Accelerator and COO of the New Teacher Center. Here’s what he had to say.