Pandemic prompts parents to give pod learning a try | Education and Children - Arizona Public Media

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Schools across Southern Arizona started the new school year offering a mix of remote education and in-classroom instruction, and some parents are continuing to look for alternatives.

Tucson parent Josh Mattson waited throughout the summer for news from the Tucson Unified School District on how and when students would return to school in the fall.

District on how and when students would return to school in the fall.

"I don't blame the district," he said. "Because they were trying to figure out what was going on and they weren't getting a lot of direction from the state,"...

University of Arizona education professor Etta Kralovec says pod learning could change the 
face of education if it catches on.
 
"Some of them are totally free ranging, some of them are Montessori schools, but the thing I think is most interesting about it is that these communities are coming together and actually having a conversation about what kind of education they want for their children," she said.
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Source: Arizona Public Media