Kerry McDonald
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A Robust Education Marketplace Means Some Schools Will Fail
A couple of years ago, I was presenting at a small education conference in New York when someone asked what…
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Schools With “Radical Politics” Must Be Tolerated in a Free Society
There is a lot of concern these days about what type of curriculum is—or is not—being taught to schoolchildren. “Curriculum…
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Why Doesn’t Every Office Building Have A Microschool?
In 1967, the Philadelphia Public Schools launched the Parkway Program, widely known as the “school without walls,” that enabled young…
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10 Education Entrepreneurs Offer Advice To New Founders in 2024
With parents continuing to seek more personalized education options for their children, and education choice policies expanding in many states…
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Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Education For the Better—If We Let It
It’s hard to believe that it was only a bit over a year ago that ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Utah’s Emerging Education Ecosystem Is Diverse And Accessible
It has been a remarkable year for education choice policies that enable parents to select the best educational fit for…
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To Combat Chronic Absenteeism, Look To Schools That Are More Successful At Engaging Learners
Many kids are not going to school. That’s the takeaway from the abundant headlines warning about the escalating epidemic of…
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Why Is There A Dyslexia Epidemic?
The earliest documented cases of dyslexia, or a language processing disorder that makes it difficult to read, date back more…
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If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One
“I hated going to school when I was a kid,” said Elon Musk in a 2015 interview. “It was torture.” …
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In Los Angeles, a Tiny School Lets Young People Direct Their Own Education
From the outside, the headquarters of Alcove Learning looks like any small home in the largely Latino Boyle Heights section…
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