When homeschooling rates soared during the 2020/2021 school year, no one was shocked. After all, homeschooling was just easier for so many parents than virtual schooling, right? But what educators never saw coming is how many of those parents would not send their kids back to schools when they reopened. As leading school choice advocate…
Not everything to come out of the pandemic is bad. In fact, there’s been some really positive trends in the area of education. Kerry McDonald, FEE Senior Education Fellow, outlined four positive education trends in 2021.
What if your mission to choose your child’s learning environment affected more than just you? For one mom of 4, her desire to give her own children a fear-free education turned into an opportunity to help other parents do the same. Jill Perez, a certified middle school teacher for over 20 years, founded a flexible…
Are you trying to decide whether or not to homeschool your child? It’s a big decision, and there’s lots of factors to consider. This video looks at homeschooling from every angle.
Are you considering homeschooling? FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald outlined 100 reasons to homeschool. Some of them just might surprise you.
Last year Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet claimed that homeschooling should be banned because it’s a threat to our children’s wellbeing. But as homeschooling graduate Andrew Reder points out in his article in the Tampa Free Press, research by Bartholet’s own colleagues prove her wrong.
Distance learning was an eye-opening experience for parents in Nevada and across the United States. They got an up close look at what was actually being taught (and not taught) to their children in their schools. This eye-opening experience was a propellent for many parents fighting for change to our education system. In her article…
As Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald points out, our current school model was established at the beginning of the Industrial Age. It was created to prepare students to spend their lives working in a factory. But in today’s Imagination Age, this model is actually hurting the students it is supposed to be teaching. Students who…
