Press
Rebecca Winthrop – "The Coolest Education Innovation I Found in Silicon Valley."
February 18, 2026
Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, PhD from Columbia University, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and leading global authority on education, visited Red Bridge Education in February 2026 and published her observations in a widely read LinkedIn article.
NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition "Empowering Students to Take Charge of Their Learning."
March 20, 2025
Sponsored by the Walton Family Foundation to support reporting on education across the nation.
NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition featured Red Bridge Education in a national segment exploring how the school puts students in charge of their own learning. The segment covers Red Bridge Education's Autonomy Level framework, learning credit system, deep dive projects, and student-initiated promotion process — and features interviews with founder Orly Friedman, learning guides, and students.
The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It – "Deeper Learning and Mastery at Red Bridge"
October 2, 2025
Nikita Khetan, Kristin Goodell, and Orly Friedman appear across Episodes 1–8 of this series hosted by Thembi Duncan, featuring education researcher Dr. Charles Reigeluth. Red Bridge Education staff discuss how personalized, student-centered learning works in practice alongside researchers examining paradigm change in American education.
The What School Could Be Podcast – Episodes 1–8: "Why Do We Need Paradigm Change in Education?"
September 1, 2025
Orly Friedman joins Getting Smart's podcast to discuss deeper learning and mastery at Red Bridge Education. "Schools like Red Bridge are signals from the future, showing us not only what school could be, but what school can be."
Hooray for Monday — Center for Inspired Teaching –"Agency and Autonomy"
August 8, 2025
Orly Friedman shares how Red Bridge Education centers student agency — including student-initiated advancement — and how teachers anywhere can incorporate more opportunities for autonomy into their classrooms.