Homeschooling Unmasked with Kerry McDonald

Guest bio:

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor.

Kerry's research interests include homeschooling and alternatives to school, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, Reason Magazine, City Journal, and Entrepreneur, among others. She has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College.

Kerry lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children.

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Guest Links:

Liberated with Kerry McDonald (newsletter)

About Kerry McDonald

Additional Reading:

Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (2019) by Kerry McDonald

Why Schools Don’t Educate by John Taylor Gatto

Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

13 Reasons Why is an indictment of schools, not legitimization of suicide by Tom

Mullen