{"id":639,"date":"2025-07-08T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2hourlearning.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:47:43","slug":"redefining-school-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2hourlearning.com\/redefining-school-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining School in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"639\" class=\"elementor elementor-639\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f305135 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"1f305135\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5d6dbf84\" data-id=\"5d6dbf84\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65e4f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"65e4f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many people I see online who think\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.school\/\" rel=\"\">Alpha Schoo<\/a>l is a gimmick, who assume \u201clearning 2X in two hours per day\u201d is nothing but flashy marketing jargon, like pretty wrapping paper for an empty box.<\/p><p>To be honest, I don\u2019t blame them. I appreciate that parents are thinking critically about their kids\u2019 education. (And at one point in my life, I probably would have been one of those skeptics, as well.) But here I am, shouting from the rooftops about \u201clearning 2X in two hours per day.\u201d Because it\u2019s\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0a gimmicky marketing ploy, not in the slightest.<\/p><p>And I want to give you the full picture.<\/p><p>Recently, I spoke at the Social Innovation Summit on what it means to redefine school in the 21st century.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0bIrZhr0eoc\" rel=\"\">You can watch my talk here<\/a>, or if you\u2019re an essay enthusiast (I\u2019m assuming you are since you\u2019re reading this!), feel free to keep on scrolling.<\/p><div id=\"youtube2-0bIrZhr0eoc\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;0bIrZhr0eoc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"Youtube2ToDOM\">\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2faed3 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"a2faed3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/futureofeducation.substack.com\/p\/redefining-school-in-the-21st-century\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read the full article here<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many people I see online who think\u00a0Alpha School is a gimmick, who assume \u201clearning 2X in two hours per day\u201d is nothing but flashy marketing jargon, like pretty wrapping paper for an empty box. 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Recently, I spoke at the Social Innovation Summit on what it means to redefine school in the 21st century.\u00a0You can watch my talk here, or if you\u2019re an essay enthusiast (I\u2019m assuming you are since you\u2019re reading this!), feel free to keep on scrolling. \u00a0 Read the full article here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Redefining School in the 21st Century - 2 Hour Learning<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/2hourlearning.com\/redefining-school-in-the-21st-century\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Redefining School in the 21st Century - 2 Hour Learning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I can\u2019t tell you how many people I see online who think\u00a0Alpha School is a gimmick, who assume \u201clearning 2X in two hours per day\u201d is nothing but flashy marketing jargon, like pretty wrapping paper for an empty box. 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