Virtual learning on The Huffington Post

Innosight Institute cofounders and Disrupting Class coauthors Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn write about virtual learning and education rising on the radar of the presidential election in their August 19, 2008 piece for the Huffington Post titled, “Virtual Learning Hits Campaign Trail.”
In the piece, Christensen and Horn write about how Senator John McCain […]

Letter in the Washington Post

Disrupting Class coauthors Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson have a letter to the editor in the August 4, 2008 Washington Post. Titled “Rewarding Teachers as Well as Pupils,” the letter responds to the front-page article “The Odd World of E-School Teachers; Distance From Students Alters Exchange of Ideas” in the […]

Disrupting Class featured in Forbes

The August 11, 2008 issue of Forbes magazine features a spread around Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson ’s book, Disrupting Class. The excerpt is titled, “How To Change the Way Kids Learn.” The article is an adapted excerpt from the book that gives a high-level summary of the book’s core […]

Disrupting Class in Wharton’s Leadership Digest

An excerpt from Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns appears in the July-August 2008 issue of the Wharton Leadership Digest. You can read it here. The excerpt is from Chapter 8 and it delves into how leaders and managers can effect change within their organizations and in school systems. […]

New methods needed to revolutionize schooling

USA Today published a letter to the editor today by Institute cofounders and Disrupting Class coauthors Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson. The letter was in response to an article about the federal government ceasing to fund the Reading First program. You can read the letter here.

Article in Chief Learning Officer magazine’s July issue

Cofounders of Innosight Institute and coauthors of Disrupting Class Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn coauthored a piece in the July issue of Chief Learning Officer. The article builds upon their work in Disrupting Class to suggest how user networks, a tool of the Web 2.0 revolution, could make a dramatic improvement in the […]

Excerpt from Disrupting Class on Forbes.com

Forbes.com published an excerpt from Disrupting Class online. You can visit it here.
In the excerpt, the authors Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson give examples of how disruptive innovations are already making their ways into schools to transform them. Specifically, they give case examples of Apex Learning and Florida Virtual […]

Disrupting Class authors pen commentary in Education Week

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson authored the back-page commentary for the June 4, 2008 issue of Education Week. Titled “How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way We Learn,” you can read the article here.
The article gives a broad overview of a few of the major themes from their recently-published book, […]

How Do We Transform Our Schools?

Institute co-founders Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn published an article in the Summer 2008 issue of Education Next titled “How Do We Transform Our Schools?” In it, the authors write about how computer-based learning is on the cusp of transforming public education. Read the article here.
The article addresses why computer-based learning has not […]

Education Week highlights research on disruptive innovation in education

In its May 7, 2008 issue, Education Week writes about Innosight Institute and founders Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn’s book, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Click here to read it online.
The article details the book’s case for how online education is emerging as a disruptive force […]