Kerry McDonald

How A Decentralized Education System Keeps Hubris In Check

This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news…

3 years ago

How One State Went From Bottom to Top in Education Choice and Innovation

West Virginia has experienced a dramatic expansion of educational freedom over the past year, from the state legislature passing a…

3 years ago

Harvard Faculty Survey Reveals Striking Ideological Bias, But More Balanced Higher Education Options Are Emerging

As a mom of two teenagers who will be forging their pathways to adulthood in the coming years, I am…

3 years ago

Why Government Is the Biggest Obstacle to Educational Freedom

In Massachusetts where I live, average private school tuition hovers around $23,000. For secular private schools, the cost is typically…

3 years ago

Arizona’s New School Choice Bill Moves Us Closer to Milton Friedman’s Vision

“Our goal is to have a system in which every family in the U.S. will be able to choose for…

3 years ago

One Prominent Libertarian Explains Why Unschooling Is the Best Way to Educate Kids

“It seems obvious to me from my own education that one learns things mostly when you’re interested in learning them…

3 years ago

College Enrollment Drops As Students Seek Alternatives

The past two years have been marked by major education disruption at the K-12 level, as more families questioned the…

3 years ago

US Entrepreneurship Is Up, and “Parentpreneurs” Are Among These New Founders

The American entrepreneurial spirit has been revived over the past two years after an extended decline. According to the US…

3 years ago

With KaiPod, Parents Decide What Their Children Learn

Curriculum battles in public schools across the US have reached a fever pitch in recent years, with parents and politicians…

3 years ago

How Black Education Entrepreneurs—and School Choice—Are Helping Kids

Advocates of school choice policies that enable education funding to follow students instead of going to school systems are typically…

3 years ago

MSNBC Claims Homeschooling Is Driven By “Insidious Racism,” But the Facts Show Otherwise

On Friday, MSNBC shared a tweet claiming that homeschooling is being driven by “the insidious racism of the American religious…

3 years ago

Could Employer-Based Microschooling Be The Newest Workplace Perk?

When Elon Musk created a small school for his children and some of his SpaceX employees on the company’s California…

3 years ago

Universal Preschool Programs Expand, Despite Documented Harms

The Biden Administration’s proposed universal preschool plan may be stalled, but states and cities are pushing ahead with taxpayer-funded preschool…

3 years ago

From Pandemic Playgroups to a Thriving Microschool: How One “Edupreneur” Met Rising Parent Demand for Schooling Alternatives

Ada Salie heard a lot of complaints. Parents were upset about what was happening in their children’s schools last fall,…

3 years ago

Boston College Psychology Professor: “School Has Become a Toxic Place for Children”

More families may be flocking to homeschooling and other schooling alternatives over the past two years, but Peter Gray has…

3 years ago