Today's microschooling movement continues to attract major coverage in national and local media outlets around the country. This week saw important new feature articles highlighting microschools in two of the most influential.
The New York Times ran this piece by its lead national education reporter Dana Goldstein, who visited several Georgia microschools and conducted research and interviews with leaders there and around the country. "...The appeal goes beyond the Republican base and includes many working- or middle-class Black and Latino parents — especially those whose children are disabled, and who feel public schools are not meeting their needs," the article found. The National Microschooling Center was pleased to see several of the Times' explanations and background about our exciting movement cited in our own published research.
“For the microschools, first of all, they’re hard to define and I think that’s a good thing. The schools tend to be environments where families and small groups of people — sometimes larger groups of people — are directing the education in a much more personalized and individualized way,” Robert Enlow, president and CEO of EdChoice, observed in this article, which also cited numerous findings from the Center's research.
As our diversified and dynamic movement continues to grow, we will surely see more such coverage, which serves an important role educating broader audiences about today's microschooling and the many different ways it looks in different communities around the nation.