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…
Building the School of the Future
Picture the last time you were in a classroom. You were probably in a desk, attached chair and table and all. That desk sat in a row of other desks, with more rows of desks behind and in front of Read more…