Ten brilliant approaches that are disrupting US education and actionable advice for their broader implementation

In School Rethink 2.0, editors Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, and Juliet Squire gather leaders immersed in the nuts-and-bolts work of educational reinvention to present ten promising education improvements and ways to implement them. Contributors, including acclaimed education pioneers Sal Khan, Beth Rabbitt, and Larry Berger, explain what it takes to reinvent schooling and the hurdles that emerge when tackling everything from curricula to staffing to assessment. These entrepreneurs and practitioners detail both the challenges and successes they’ve experienced in putting their ideas into practice, and they offer wise advice to administrators, policymakers, and educators who hope to adopt these approaches.

Many of the approaches described in the book were driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the nation to rethink core tenets of schooling. Contributors find solutions in robust career and technical education and new staffing models. They champion best-fit environments achieved via school choice programs and variations in school size, from colossal, highly resourced school systems to microschools. They turn to technology, leveraging adaptive software programs and generative artificial intelligence for learning and assessment. And they highlight a range of alternative instructional models such as mastery-based learning, personalized instruction, and multimodal learning labs for math instruction.

This collection offers a host of actionable solutions to help accommodate different learning needs.

About the Author

Frederick M. Hess is the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes Education Week’s popular blog “Rick Hess Straight Up” and is both an executive editor of Education Next and a senior contributor to Forbes. He is the author of The Great School Rethink, as well as influential works on school improvement such as Spinning Wheels and Cage-Busting Leadership. Michael B. Horn is the author of several books on the future of education, including From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child. He is the cofounder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He cohosts the top education podcasts Future U and Class Disrupted. Juliet Squire is a senior partner in the Policy and Evaluation practice area at Bellwether, where she has studied and written about federal and state policies on charter schools, school governance, private school management organizations, low-cost private schools and microschools, and rural education, among other topics. She recently led the Assembly initiative at Bellwether, working to develop a new framework for how students access individualized learning options.

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