Guest bio:
Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1641600632/ (Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom) (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an https://www.cato.org/people/kerry-mcdonald (adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute) and a regular https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerrymcdonald/#36e691a46885 (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.
You can sign up for her weekly newsletter on parenting and education https://go.fee.org/liberated (here).
Guest Links:
https://go.fee.org/liberated (Liberated with Kerry McDonald (newsletter))
https://fee.org/people/kerry-mcdonald/ (About Kerry McDonald)
Additional Reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1641600632/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1641600632&linkCode=as2&tag=tomusbl-20&linkId=c386dfcaa14b0f857a82c6b543cde1df (Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (2019)) by Kerry McDonald
https://www.naturalchild.org/articles/guest/john_gatto.html (Why Schools Don’t Educate) by John Taylor Gatto
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0865716692/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0865716692&linkCode=as2&tag=tomusbl-20&linkId=75586c52f10fc260fae144214329c1d4 (Weapons of Mass Instruction) by John Taylor Gatto
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865718547/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=tomusbl-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=6e4c95dd2e1aa5c91196d8f9794becfe&creativeASIN=0865718547 (Dumbing Us Down) by John Taylor Gatto
https://tommullen.net/featured/13-reasons-why-is-an-indictment-of-schools-not-legitimization-of-suicide/ (13 Reasons Why is an indictment of schools, not legitimization of suicide) by Tom
Mullen
https://tommullen.net/featured/the-thanksgiving-day-deception-exhibit-a-against-public-schools/ (The Thanksgiving Day deception: Exhibit A against public schools) by Tom Mullen
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