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Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Commentary: Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling

I have spent the past thirty-five years creating small, highly-personalized schools where students flourish. I have, if you will, bet my life on the value of these schools—microschools before they became a thing. Over the course of that time, I’ve seen hundreds of children who were anxious, depressed—sometimes even suicidal—become happy and well within weeks or months of switching from a large, impersonal public school to a small learning environment which offered a closely-connected community.

Based on that experience, for the past decade I’ve been looking at research showing the various ways in which small, high-touch learning environments may be more beneficial for student mental health than are large, impersonal public schools.
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3 comments:

  1. http://montessori.edu/

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  2. It's always easier to be shown than to be told.

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  3. Home & private schooling education beats public school indoctrination even for the rich elite Liberals who applaud gay and transgender public school teaching in kindergarten while their kids are in $70,000 a year private schools.

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