Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Christensen approaches improving the education system from the broad lens of innovation, rather than focusing solely on examining the school system itself. The result: a powerful perspective on how disruptive innovation outside the mainstream curriculum can ultimately transform the techniques and results of the public school system in general. Disrupting Class outlines a thorough argument for how to dramatically improve... Read Full Review

Rocket Builders most influential author, Christensen, with his co authors has taken his theory of disruptive innovation and focused on the education sector. The authors do not lay blame but with Christensen's laser sharp analysis, peel back all the root causes of public perception and changing goal posts for education and what it has done to the institution over time. He then goes on to explain how classic disruption theory... Read Full Review

Administrators, teachers, parents, and policy makers would do well to read Disrupting Class. The authors approach education with the perspective of an outsider - business person, technologist, entrepreneur - but the knowledge and thoughtfulness of an insider. Instead of offering didactic or hubristic "fixes" for education, the book provides a framework for thinking about education that is fresh and practical, particularly... Read Full Review

I am a layperson with an interest in education and technology. I read Innovator's Dilemma and was anxious to see if Clayton Christensen could apply his unique business lens to sort through, and perhaps solve the issues concerning our failing public education system. He and his colleagues didn't disappoint me. This book was eminently readable and layer by layer, uncovered the weaknesses in the way we educate our kids. It's... Read Full Review

The authors are on to something really, really big here- the eventual replacement of the method of instruction that has been in use since before the days of Socrates. [...]