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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 forthcoming From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child, which will be released in July 2022. He is also the cofounder of the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank.

teachers

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

Michael B. Horn
Class Disrupted Podcast

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Class Disrupted Podcast

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Class Disrupted Podcast

Class Disrupted Podcast: What America Can Learn From Germany

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E16: Rethinking College for All

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

What Does Education Have to Do with Meritocracy?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Class Disrupted Podcast

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

Why Is There More Physical Violence in Schools This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

Where Are Students Learning This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

Standards and Curriculum Aren't the Same

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E2: What Schools Should Teach

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Class Disrupted Podcast

Podcast: Back-to-School COVID-19 Shopping

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

5 Things I Learned Recording ‘Class Disrupted’

Michael B. Horn
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Opinion

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

Michael B. Horn
SXSW

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

Michael B. Horn
Los Angeles

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

Michael B. Horn
Future of Work

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

Michael B. Horn & Gunnar Counselman
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