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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.

As Schools Push to Recover from COVID, Turbulent Days for Education Philanthropy

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Reimagining School: An Expert’s Take on Unbundling the Core Education Experience

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

How Kids Learn: A Gap Between Schools’ Teaching Models & Latest Learning Science

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Reimagining College — Big Ideas for the Future of Higher Education

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Is College Really Worth It? What Andreseen & Horowitz Get Right (and Wrong)

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Podcast — Changing the Equation: How to Make Math Class More Meaningful

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Class Disrupted S5 E8: Providing a Human-Centered, Self-Actualizing Education to Every Student

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Schools: A New Approach via Freedom & Dreams

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

The Rise of Student Apprenticeships: Thinking Beyond 'College or Bust'

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Class Disrupted 2023 in Review: AI, New Assessments, ‘The American Dream’ & More

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn

Class Disrupted S5 E4: How America’s Oldest Nonprofit Aims to Drive the Future of Education

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn

AI & Education: A Classroom Perspective on Looming Possibilities and Challenges

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

America’s Evolving Definition of Success: Where Do Schools Fit In?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Back in Conversation: New Beginnings on Class Disrupted

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E18: Anxiety, Fear, and the Importance of Listening

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

A New Way to Innovate at Schools: Embrace a Child-Like Mind, Test Boundaries

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E7: Beneath the AI Hype

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E1: The Disruptive Journey Ahead

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Class Disrupted Podcast: What America Can Learn From Germany

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E16: Rethinking College for All

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

What Does Education Have to Do with Meritocracy?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Why Is There More Physical Violence in Schools This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Where Are Students Learning This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Standards and Curriculum Aren't the Same

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E2: What Schools Should Teach

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Podcast: Back-to-School COVID-19 Shopping

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

5 Things I Learned Recording ‘Class Disrupted’

Michael B. Horn

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

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

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

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

Michael B. Horn

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

Michael B. Horn

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

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

Michael B. Horn & Gunnar Counselman