The Future of Education

In May of 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor approved the launch of four Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs) by OpenClassrooms , a French-Based education-to-employment platform. These four programs (Data Analyst, Digital Marketer, Help Desk Technician, and Application (Software) Developer) aim to provide increased opportunities for individuals seeking to advance their careers and help employ...

I had the opportunity at a recent event to host a conversation on stage with Ian Rowe and Scott Barry Kaufman. Ian is author of the new book, Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power , a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and CEO of Vertex Partnership Academies, a network of charter high schools...

The author of 18 books on education, Jay McTighe is well known among educators, particularly for his book "Understanding by Design" with Grant Wiggins. A regular speaker at education conferences, he's also the author of a more recent white paper for rethinking the nation's assessment system. In this conversation, McTighe walked through the present problems with today's assessment system and the st...

Nerdy and its flagship business Varsity Tutors are among the headliners driving the surge in interest in tutoring in the wake of the pandemic and the research around the value of tutoring in helping individuals learn. In this conversation with its founder and CEO Chuck Cohn, we dug into these trends, how these trends might become sustainable in the long-term, and learn what makes Nerdy distinct fr...

Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has been at the forefront of rethinking teacher preparation, the schooling model in which teachers work, the job of the teacher, and how teachers work with other educators on a daily basis. Carole Basile, the dean of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, joined me to talk about why the current teacher model is broken and what a more robust vi...

Sara Suchman, the founder and executive director of the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector, joined me to talk about the growth of Montessori public schools. As attention shifts to how to meet each and every learner with what they need and how to help students build the social-emotional skills they need to thrive, Montessori schools have been doing just this for decades. Often seen...

The Khan Academy now serves over 100 million learners. It runs its own brick-and-mortar school, the Khan Lab School. It offers tutoring at Schoolhouse.world. And now, in partnership with Arizona State University and the team behind ASU Prep Digital, Arizona State's virtual learning offering for high school students, it's standing up the Khan World School, a virtual school for high schoolers. Sal K...

John Edelson, president and founder of Time4Learning, joined me to talk about the durability of the spike in homeschooling since the start of the pandemic and what lessons educators and schools can learn from homeschoolers. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelbhorn.substack.com/subscribe

Aaron Rasmussen, the founder and CEO of Outlier.org and cofounder of MasterClass, joined me to talk about his solution for helping expand access and affordability in higher education, his company's recently announced partnership with Amazon, and how he thinks about the differences between MasterClass versus Outlier.org, which offers learners affordable for-credit college courses. This is a public...

Amber Oliver has been leading the Robin Hood Learning+Tech Fund since it began its grant-making. The Fund has been at the forefront of helping students build their literacy skills through knowledge-rich curriculum that is personalized through technology and embedding computational thinking in schools. These strategies are increasingly converging in important ways, which Amber and I discussed durin...

Mallory Dwinal, founder of Reach University, joined me to talk about the new accredited institution she started, Reach University. In the episode, we talked about just what is job-embedded learning, how does Reach University validate it in a reliable and rigorous way, what problems does this approach help solve, and what does this mean for the future of higher education and training—specifically i...

Edson Barton, CEO and founder of YouScience, joined me to talk about the science behind YouScience, a platform that offers assessments to help students discover careers for which they are well suited. In this conversation, we dug into how the aptitude tests work, what's their validity, how does YouScience compare to other similar solutions out there, what does the student and educator experience l...

At the end of January, Jobs for the Future announced an acquisition of the Education Quality Outcomes Standards Board, a nonprofit I cofounded. In this conversation with Tameshia Bridges Mansfield and Steve Yadzinski from JFF, we dig in to why JFF made the acquisition, what they hope to accomplish with EQOS, and the broader importance of and use cases for outcomes in postsecondary education and tr...

Marc Prensky has been turning heads around how education should work since he wrote his influential book arguing that video games were good for learning. He's at it again, with a set of ideas for empowering students to accomplish continuous real-world impact projects with guidance in hubs that are dramatically different from traditional schools. He joined me to talk more about the concept. This is...

Strada Education Network, a philanthropy focused at the intersection of education and careers, has a new person in charge, Tom Dawson. Long among a handful of organizations that are changing the role philanthropy plays with non-profit and for-profit organizations, Tom joins me to talk about the philosophy behind Strada's strategy and how it's set up to advance social impact. This is a public episo...