A Deep Dive into the Design Track at Sora

The current system of education was designed, conceived, and structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment and in the economic circumstances of the Industrial Revolution. Sir Ken Robinson Public education has remained largely unchanged over the past century. Standardized testing became a nationwide phenomenon one hundred years […]

Creating something new is hard. Not only do you have to recognize a problem, but you need to persevere through the problem solving process which can take many rounds of iteration and is usually frustrating. At Sora, we believe that encouraging curiosity and interdisciplinary thinking makes for a stronger creative process overall. The capacity for […]

In April 2020, a federal court ruled that children possess a constitutional right to become literate, or in other words, the right to be educated. NPR deemed this ruling “a landmark decision.”  Against the backdrop of education inequities, this decision is revolutionary. Civil rights lawyers have defended underserved students for decades. They’ve advocated that the […]