Michael B. Horn
Saturday, October 10
Can you ace schools and systems?
Charters, districts, and one-room schoolhouses.
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Wednesday, October 7
Building the Post-Industrial Core
Many people talk about transforming “factory-model schools” to “learner-centered” models.
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Monday, October 5
Priority 2: Revise Requirements to Recognize Learning Across Contexts
Two weeks ago, Angela Jackson (the CEO of Future Forward Strategies), Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (the President of Craft Education, a WGU company and nonprofit data platform that enables apprenticeship degrees), Danny Curtis, and I published a series of six papers
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Saturday, October 3
How well do you know the history of standardized testing?
The SAT, the ACT, and everything in between.
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Friday, October 2
More Campuses, New Models: Can Universities Reinvent Themselves?
While much of higher ed is retrenching and struggling, other schools are making big bets on having multiple locations.
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Wednesday, September 30
Could Alpha School disrupt K–12 education?
This is the second of two posts that Thomas Arnett of the Christensen Institute and I coauthored about Alpha School.
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Monday, September 28
Priority 1: Getting a View and Setting a Vision Across Systems
A week ago, Angela Jackson (the CEO of Future Forward Strategies), Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (the President of Craft Education, a WGU company and nonprofit data platform that enables apprenticeship degrees), Danny Curtis, and I published a series of six papers
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Saturday, September 26
Can you ace the ideas that changed schools?
Kindergarten.
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Wednesday, September 23
If you don’t like Alpha, it’s probably not for you. That should be OK
This is the first of two posts about Alpha School coauthored with Thomas Arnett of the Christensen Institute.
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Monday, September 21
Beyond Silos: A state policy playbook for building integrated education-to-career systems
Today, Angela Jackson (the CEO of Future Forward Strategies), Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (the President of Craft Education, a WGU company and nonprofit data platform that enables apprenticeship degrees), Danny Curtis, and I published a series of six papers
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Saturday, September 19
How well do you know the philosophy of education?
Plato to Dewey.
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Friday, September 18
AI and What It Portends for Young Learners and College Students
Today’s general update is chock full of pieces about AI: from AI bans in large school districts to college leaders grappling with what the right posture on AI should be—and the implications for learning, career opportunities and more.
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Wednesday, September 16
Stamping the Moment in Time: Welcome Back
In our season opener of Class Disrupted, Diane Tavenner and I reflected on our journey cohosting the podcast and take stock of the evolving challenges and opportunities in education.
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Monday, September 14
Why College Could Matter More than Ever in the AI Era
As students settle back on college campuses across the country, there’s a big question in the ether.
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Saturday, September 12
Can you ace education research and reform?
What does the research say?
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Wednesday, September 9
Higher Ed Needs to Decide What It Is
It’s hard to believe Jeff Selingo and I are back for our 10th season of Future U., which had some 65,000 unique listeners last season.
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Saturday, September 5
Can you order these milestones in higher education access?
The Morrill Act to need-blind admissions.
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Wednesday, September 2
The Value of Live in a World of Abundant AI
In a piece I published a few months back titled “Abundance, Scarcity, and the Future of Work in an AI World,” I made the argument that there’s unlikely to ever be a world of unlimited abundance.
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Saturday, August 29
Can you ace this global education quiz?
How the world learns.
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Friday, August 28
Rethinking School, College, and the Role of Technology
As summer comes to a close in the U.S.
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