661: Kerry McDonald - Cato Homeschooling Debate Debriefing
Kerry McDonald is back to discuss her appearance at and lessons from Cato's recent event called Homeschooling: Protecting Freedom, Protecting Children. Kerry came Zoom-face to Zoom-face with Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Bartholet, who authored the controversial Arizona Law Review paper attacking homeschoolers and called for a "presumptive ban" on their educational way of life.
Kerry's Take-Aways:
- There Are People Who Believe the State Should Be Your Co-Parent
- Random Home Visits Will Be a Weapon of the State
- Private Education Is in Danger
- State Standardized Testing Begs the Question: Whose Standard?
- Homeschoolers Will Win
(Read her FEE article about the event HERE )
Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom. She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor. Kerry has a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College and an M.Ed. in education policy from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children. You can sign up for her weekly newsletter on parenting and education here.
Kerry's Previous Appearance On the Podcast:
[PODCAST] #504: Unenclosed Children and Self-Directed Learning – With Kerry McDonald
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