Student Spotlight: Cade
One of our students talks about his experience at Sora and the projects he’s working on at school right now.
The Orientation Project: Addressing Preventable Blindness in the US
This past week, students completed their very first project: the Orientation Project. Our program is an inquiry-based learning environment. Students choose what they want to learn, and our educators focus on scaffolding projects around those interests and guiding them towards Read more…
Applying the Spacing Effect to How Students Learn
Most people can remember cramming everything they had to learn in a class the night before a test. It’s a common phenomenon in traditional schools: listen passively in class, skim the textbook, try to memorize all of the necessary material Read more…
Homeschooling is growing — here’s why it’s sticking
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 1999, just 850,000 students — 1.7% of children — were actively being homeschooled in the United States. In 2012, that number jumped to an estimated 1.8 million students. In 2017, nonprofit Edchoice reported that Read more…
5 Education Experts Share Their Takes on the Future of Education
At Sora Schools, our belief is that the future of education is a system and model that empowers students with agency and treats learning as something truly meaningful, useful, and fun, not just a process of arbitrary content memorization and Read more…