School Rethink 2.0

Putting Reinvention into Practice

Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, Juliet Squire

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Harvard Educational Publishing Group
28 February 2025

Philosophy & theory of education; Educational strategies & policy; Organisation & management of education

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.

Edited by: Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, Juliet Squire
Imprint: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781682539408
ISBN 10: 1682539407
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for School Rethink 2.0: Putting Reinvention into Practice

""School Rethink 2.0 provides a roadmap for how to disrupt the stultifying one-size-fits-all approach that perpetuates the unsatisfactory status quo and instead embrace and explore the growing number of proven student-centered efforts that focus on preparing students for success in life.""--Aimee Rogstad Guidera, secretary of education, Commonwealth of Virginia ""A new reality for the nation's schools, marked by new challenges, technological advances, and expanded choice, requires a solution-oriented rethinking of how education is delivered. In this timely volume, a diverse and thoughtful group of problem solvers pull back the curtain on the hard work of reinvention. If you're involved in schooling, or just care about schools, this book is for you.""--Derrell Bradford, president, 50CAN ""The debate about schools tends to be more heat than light and too often informed by survivor bias. Hess, Horn, Squire and their contributors offer a welcome alternative by elevating voices engaged in the messy and uncertain work of creating new models and approaches to education.""--Andrew Rotherham, cofounder and senior partner, Bellwether, and author of the Eduwonk blog ""The pathway to stronger student outcomes will require creative problem solvers who implement ideas well. The lessons this book teaches on implementing change--including some you may disagree with--are highly instructive for those working hard to create better futures for students and communities.""--M. Karega Rausch, president and CEO, National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA)