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The Microschool Movement: Why Small Is Becoming Education's Next Big Idea

Between 750,000 and 2.1 million US students now attend microschools — small, mixed-age learning environments that reject the 30-student classroom in favor of ratios as low as 3:1. University of Chicago research shows high-dosage small-group instruction can double or triple learning in a year. But RAND found measuring microschool outcomes is "nearly impossible." As public ESA funding flows in, the equity and accountability questions can no longer wait.

Jun 19, 2026

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The Tutoring Revolution: How the Most Effective Teaching Method in History Is Finally Being Scaled

In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom discovered that one-to-one tutoring was so effective that the average tutored student outperformed 98% of classroom students. He called it the 2 Sigma Problem, and it went unsolved because tutoring was simply too expensive to scale. That is beginning to change. This is the story of how high-dosage tutoring, AI, and post-pandemic urgency are finally making the most effective teaching method in history available to the students who need it most.

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The Death of the Lecture: How a New Generation of Teachers Is Reinventing How We Learn

Students in traditional lecture courses are 1.5 times more likely to fail than those taught with active learning methods. The science of how people learn has advanced enormously in the past two decades — yet most classrooms look almost identical to those of the 19th century. This is the story of what the evidence actually shows, the educators building something better, and what anyone can do right now to learn more effectively.

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The Microschool Movement: Why Small Is Becoming Education's Next Big Idea

The Tutoring Revolution: How the Most Effective Teaching Method in History Is Finally Being Scaled

The Death of the Lecture: How a New Generation of Teachers Is Reinventing How We Learn

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