Nevada’s schools of choice provide the families who depend on them with educational opportunities they value and depend on. And they do so navigating an extremely restrictive regulatory environment. In fact, Nevada has among the nation’s most overregulated nonpublic schools, a situation wh...
Welcome to the National Microschooling Center, an empowering hub for pioneering small learning environments. Microschools, rooted in relationships and understandings that every leader has of who each child is as an individual, are blooming in Nevada, and across the country. We launched the Center to...
Originally published in Construction Connection magazine So what was your biggest accomplishment in school this year? Too often, this question gets met with a shrug and a mumble from our children. But if they attend one of the compelling new microschool models popping up around the county, we migh...
Article originally published by ReimaginEd A new study from researchers at the venerable RAND Corporation takes the important step of evaluating the academic growth achieved by children at a prominent microschool, the Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy (SNUMA). The academy was created by the ...
Don Soifer discusses today’s fast-growing microschooling movement, its history, and its transformative potential with Virginia Gentles, Director of the Independent Women’s Forum Education Freedom Center. While the “pandemic pods” during COVID school shutdowns really launched ...