From the report: "The Covid-19 pandemic brought drastic changes to K–12 education in the U.S. When school buildings closed for in-person instruction in March 2020, many parents sought other solutions for the education and social and emotional development of their school-age children. Microschools, which enrolled small numbers of students and hired staff to educate them, were one such solution. The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) profiled the first year of implementation—2020–21 school year—of one microschool established during the early months of the pandemic in Clark County, Nevada, called the Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy (SNUMA). SNUMA employed personalized learning platforms—Zearn Math, Lexia, and Dreambox—along with one-to-one and whole-group instruction as a key approach to helping students access grade-level content. RAND built on CRPE’s research on SNUMA to more deeply understand the role such personalized learning platforms played in SNUMA’s instructional approach during its first year of operation and the types of data available across platforms."