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Articles by Michael B. Horn

Michael B. Horn strives to create a world in which all individuals can build their passions and fulfill their potential through his writing, speaking, and work with a portfolio of education organizations. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns and the recently released From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child. He is also the cofounder of the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank.

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Articles by Michael B. Horn

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E16: Is Legislation the Best Way to End the ‘Reading Wars’?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E15: How Hardening Schools Could Harm Students

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E14: How to Design a College Alternative

Class Disrupted: When Students Help Direct What They’re Taught in School

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E12: It’s Time We Talked Money

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E11: Scaling the New, Sunsetting the Old

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E10: Education Reflections from Trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia and India

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E9: Shake-Up in the Assessment Market

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E8: Why Failure — and Pivoting from It — Is Hard in Education

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E7: Beneath the AI Hype

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E6: How Do You Staff Innovation?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E5: Why Aren’t There More Innovative Schools?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E4: What Should Schools Try and Test?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E3: Is There a Teacher Shortage? It Depends

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E2: What Does a Real Pilot Look Like in a School?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E1: The Disruptive Journey Ahead

Teachers Want to Quit Because They’re Unhappy and Unfulfilled. Here’s One Fix

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E20: Does Banning Things Actually Keep Children Safe in Schools?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E19: Are Older Students Fixed in Their Abilities?

Class Disrupted Podcast: 30 Years After the 1st Charter School

Class Disrupted Podcast: What America Can Learn From Germany

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E16: Rethinking College for All

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

What Does Education Have to Do with Meritocracy?

Is America Facing a Teacher Shortage? Inside the Numbers That Say Yes — and No

Class Disrupted S3 E11: What is Driving Parent Frustration with Schools?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E10: The Unworkable Burden On Schools

Omicron, Schools & Ted Lasso: What the Comedy Can Teach Us About Crisis Response

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E8: 3 Big Education Wishes for 2022

Why Is There More Physical Violence in Schools This Year?

Why Is This Teacher Shortage Different (and How Did We Get Here?)

Where Are Students Learning This Year?

Standards and Curriculum Aren't the Same

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E3: Who Decides What Gets Taught?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E2: What Schools Should Teach

Podcast: Back-to-School COVID-19 Shopping

5 Things I Learned Recording ‘Class Disrupted’

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 10: We Should Have Fixed Inequity in Education Yesterday. Now the Pandemic Has Made Redesigning the System Exponentially More Urgent

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 9: Should School Be Year-Round?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 8: The Faulty Promise of Tests

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 7: Straight A’s for All? What’s the Purpose of a Grade?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 6: Help! My Child and I Are Overwhelmed!

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 5: My Kid’s Able to Finish Schoolwork in 3 Hours. So What Is He Doing for the 6 in School?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 4: Why Are We Doing School?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 3: Why Can’t Sal Khan Just Teach Everyone?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 2: Why Is My Child Doing So Many Worksheets Right Now?

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 1: Why Doesn’t Every Student Have a Device and the Internet? How One Texas District Is Leading the Way for Virtual Learning

LISTEN: Introducing the Class Disrupted Podcast, a Weekly Pandemic Education Conversation Hosted by Author Michael Horn & Summit Public Schools’ Diane Tavenner

Appreciation: Remembering Clayton Christensen, a Gentle Giant of Innovation and Believer in the Power of Education

Horn — Why It’s Time to Start Using ‘Personalized Learning’ as a Verb, Not a Noun

Horn: A Teachers Strike, a Call for Civility From Both Sides for the Sake of Our Children and the Country’s Political Future

Horn & Counselman: Why States Should Break the College-Degree Stranglehold and Make Jobs Available to All Qualified Applicants

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