The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More

By Kerry McDonald The problem with proposed “learning loss” remedies is that they view more schooling…

Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools

By Kerry McDonald Americans have soured on public schools. That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results…

In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted

By Kerry McDonald The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston…

Entrepreneurial Teachers Create New Education Options For Rural Families

By Kerry McDonald On a quiet street in the tiny town of Abbyville, Kansas, population 83,…

More Than One Million Students Left District Schools. How Do We Know They’re Learning?

By Kerry McDonald The education disruption caused by mass school closures and prolonged remote instruction beginning…

Why National Guard Troops Are Now Driving Public School Buses in This State

By Kerry McDonald As the new academic year begins, a school bus driver shortage has impacted…

Families, Not the Government, Should Regulate Big Tech

By Kerry McDonald I watched The Social Dilemma with my 12-year-old son this week and it…

With Remote Learning, Schools Are Watching and Reporting Parents at Alarming Rates

By Kerry McDonald As remote learning creates more distance between school districts and students, school and…

Harvard Kennedy School To Host Conference Addressing The Campaign Against Homeschooling Rights

By Kerry McDonald The outcry over a Harvard Law School professor’s call for a “presumptive ban”…