HEA reauthorization provides policymakers with an opportunity to explore new strategies for improving postsecondary transitions, increasing personalized pathways to a credential, and creating a new pipeline of educators to help propel the transformation to personalized learning in K-12 settings. A modernized HEA can address each of these priorities by emphasizing learner-centered policies that appropriately balance local flexibility with a deep commitment to improved postsecondary and economic outcomes nationwide.
A modernized HEA law should support personalized learning experiences for all learners by emphasizing the following goals:
- Increase college enrollment and persistence by incentivizing effective transitions between K–12 and higher education.
- Support personalized learning pathways toward a postsecondary credential by making thefederal financial aid system more flexible.
- Prepare K-12 educator candidates to take on new teaching roles in personalized learning environments.
