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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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How Kids Learn: A Gap Between Schools’ Teaching Models & Latest Learning Science

McKinsey’s senior ed advisor joins Class Disrupted to discuss the challenges schools face relating to core education and their role in communities.

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Is College Really Worth It? What Andreseen & Horowitz Get Right (and Wrong)

Stacey Childress, a senior adviser on education at McKinsey, joins Class Disrupted to talk the value of college, SATs, measuring intelligence & more

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E20: Does Banning Things Actually Keep Children Safe in Schools?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Podcast: What a Mentorship Mindset Can Do for Student Motivation

In a special summer episode of Class Disrupted, Author David Yeager joins to discuss practical strategies for mentoring young people.

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn

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

In the season finale of Class Disrupted, Stacey Childress joins to discuss turbulent trends they’re hearing around funding in education sectors.

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Back in Conversation: New Beginnings on Class Disrupted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E10: Education Reflections from Trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia and India

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

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E8: Why Failure — and Pivoting from It — Is Hard in Education

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E7: Beneath the AI Hype

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Class Disrupted Podcast: What America Can Learn From Germany

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E16: Rethinking College for All

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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What Does Education Have to Do with Meritocracy?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Is America Facing a Teacher Shortage? Inside the Numbers That Say Yes — and No

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted S3 E11: What is Driving Parent Frustration with Schools?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E10: The Unworkable Burden On Schools

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

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E8: 3 Big Education Wishes for 2022

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Why Is There More Physical Violence in Schools This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Why Is This Teacher Shortage Different (and How Did We Get Here?)

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Where Are Students Learning This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Standards and Curriculum Aren't the Same

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E3: Who Decides What Gets Taught?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E2: What Schools Should Teach

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Podcast: Back-to-School COVID-19 Shopping

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5 Things I Learned Recording ‘Class Disrupted’

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When the Teacher Becomes the Student: What I Learned From Making ‘Class Disrupted’

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

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

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

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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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

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

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