In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted
By Kerry McDonald The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as they did…
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Entrepreneurial Teachers Create New Education Options For Rural Families
By Kerry McDonald On a quiet street in the tiny town of Abbyville, Kansas, population 83, lies Re*Wild Family Academy. Founded earlier this year by…
More Than One Million Students Left District Schools. How Do We Know They’re Learning?
By Kerry McDonald The education disruption caused by mass school closures and prolonged remote instruction beginning three years ago this month led many families to…
Why National Guard Troops Are Now Driving Public School Buses in This State
By Kerry McDonald As the new academic year begins, a school bus driver shortage has impacted students and families all across the country. According to…
Families, Not the Government, Should Regulate Big Tech
By Kerry McDonald I watched The Social Dilemma with my 12-year-old son this week and it couldn’t be more timely. A Netflix original docu-drama that…
With Remote Learning, Schools Are Watching and Reporting Parents at Alarming Rates
By Kerry McDonald As remote learning creates more distance between school districts and students, school and state officials are clinging to control however they can….
Harvard Kennedy School To Host Conference Addressing The Campaign Against Homeschooling Rights
By Kerry McDonald The outcry over a Harvard Law School professor’s call for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling has been swift and steady. From education…
The Artists Who Are Challenging The Education Status Quo
By Kerry McDonald On a recent weekday morning, the first floor of Tiffany Pierce’s home in Queens, New York, was abuzz with activity. Six children,…
City Shuts Downs Preschoolers’ Farm Stand Citing Zoning Violations
By Kerry McDonald It’s like something out of The Onion: city manager shuts down preschool farm stand out of fear that, if allowed, “we could…
US Schools Are Leaving Students Ill-Equipped to Compete with Artificial Intelligence
By Kerry McDonald We have long known that the robots were coming, but now that they are here, the mismatch between our modern education system…
Homeschoolers: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
By Kerry McDonald My eight-year-old daughter and I recently read about the Salem Witch Trials. She had heard about Salem from a friend who visited…
How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents
By Kerry McDonald Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: In fact, the whole…
How the Gig Economy Empowers Unschoolers
By Kerry McDonald The growth of freelancers, or those working in the “gig economy” as their own independent contractors, is reshaping the way many Americans…
In the Wake of Mass Shootings, Parents Reconsider Mass Schooling
By Kerry McDonald Parents who remove their children from the confines of the conventional classroom are not running away from reality. They are running towards…