Rise Of Micro-School

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My Thoughts of The Rise of Micro-schools

Micro-schools are becoming more popular among parents who are looking for a more specialized education for their children, but do not want to spend the money required to attend a private school. In Micheal B. Horn’s article, The Rise of AltSchool and Other Micro-schools, Horn talks about the main ideas of micro-school’s advantages such as its affordable personalized instruction that is based upon each individual student. Another main point of the article that is stressed are the lesser hours spent listening to a lecture in a classroom and more hours spent exploring their own personal likes and dislikes. Micro-school’s tend to only meet academically a few days a week which leaves more time for the

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