Kerry McDonald
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A Rural, Waldorf Microschool Gets Shut Down By State Regulators
Ariel Maguire gathered together with other moms in her rural area of the Big Island of Hawaii to create a…
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Celebrating A Milestone For Homeschooling Freedoms
The ubiquity and widespread acceptance of homeschooling as a valid educational option for American families can obscure the fact that…
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Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation Across the US: A Case Study
The rise of bottom-up education models Across the US, everyday education entrepreneurs are reimagining K-12 education in simple but profound…
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In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted
The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as…
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Two ‘Mompreneurs’ Created a Forest School That Reaches Thousands
It was a cool, muddy morning in March when I pulled into the empty parking lot of a sprawling forest…
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Entrepreneurial Teachers Create New Education Options For Rural Families
On a quiet street in the tiny town of Abbyville, Kansas, population 83, lies Re*Wild Family Academy. Founded earlier this…
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More Than One Million Students Left District Schools. How Do We Know They’re Learning?
The education disruption caused by mass school closures and prolonged remote instruction beginning three years ago this month led many…
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New York City’s Not-So-Secret World of Low-Cost Private Schools
When we hear the term “New York City private school,” most of us likely think of the elite, urban prep…
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How a Former Football Star Is Trying to Break the School-To-Prison Pipeline
When star football player Turan Rush returned home to Charleston, West Virginia after graduating from Eastern Michigan University in 2021,…
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More School Districts Ban ChatGPT. Here’s Why That’s A Bad Idea
Humans have a complicated relationship with new technologies. We generally appreciate the ways in which they improve our lives in…
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