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Kerry McDonald

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Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education 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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Dec. 8, 2022

639: The Rise of the Educational Entrepreneur

As schools and universities closed their doors, many educators took the opportunity to start their own businesses, providing online learning resources and services.

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April 7, 2022

476: Unleashing the Power of Educational Entrepreneurialism! (with Ke…

Enabling education funding to follow students instead of going to bureaucratic school systems that are increasingly unresponsive to parent needs

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Sept. 15, 2021

322: Why Have Over 5 Million Kids Left Public Schools?-with Kerry McD…

Government mandates and the long-term harm done to behavioral development of kids might have something to do with it.

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