By Kerry McDonald Conversations with leaders of an array of educational models yields some inspiring advice for emerging entrepreneurs eyeing launches in the new year. With parents continuing to seek more personalized education options for their children, and education choice policies expanding in many states to enable funding to follow students, 2024 could be an ideal … [Read more...] about 10 Education Entrepreneurs Offer Advice To New Founders in 2024
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Parents Are Winning The Battle For School Choice
Authored by Jackson Elliott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZeroHedge), Florida mother of five Nicole Andrews puts it bluntly when asked why she sends her children to a charter school instead of the assigned public school for their community. She “absolutely, desperately” wants her youngsters in charter school because it has “a different culture,” she told The Epoch Times. … [Read more...] about Parents Are Winning The Battle For School Choice
Open Source Education — “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report We all know the problem's with the public miseducation system. But what's the answer? Corbett in the Classroom, of course! Join James as he explores his new page, OpenSourceEducation.online, and talks about the inspiration for this idea (and the guerrilla marketing campaign that is accompanying it) with Ernest Hancock of … [Read more...] about Open Source Education — “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One
By Kerry McDonald “I hated going to school when I was a kid,” said Elon Musk in a 2015 interview. “It was torture.” When deciding how his own children would be educated, Musk rejected traditional schooling and created his own project-based microschool, Ad Astra, in 2014, on his SpaceX campus. “The kids really love going to school,” said Musk about Ad Astra in that same … [Read more...] about If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One
Former Public School Teachers Find Happiness In Entrepreneurship
By Kerry McDonald I spent much of last week in the greater Kansas City area visiting microschools and learning pods, and talking to founders, ahead of the Heartland Hybrid & Microschools Summit, hosted by Kansas Policy Institute. All of the seven learning environments I visited in Kansas and Missouri were founded within the past three years and all of the founders are … [Read more...] about Former Public School Teachers Find Happiness In Entrepreneurship
What the Back-to-School Adderall Shortage Really Tells Us
By Kerry McDonald It’s back-to-school season and that’s prompting concerns about further shortages of medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Last fall, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared a nationwide shortage of Adderall, a popular ADHD drug. That shortage is expected to worsen. According to CNBC: “Many children and young … [Read more...] about What the Back-to-School Adderall Shortage Really Tells Us
Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go
By Kerry McDonald When Massachusetts passed the nation’s first compulsory school attendance law in 1852, parents were mandated to send their children to school under a legal threat of force. Today, that threat remains stronger than ever. Prior to that law, and those that followed in all other US states over the subsequent decades, cities and towns were compelled to … [Read more...] about Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go
To The Mom Who Doesn’t Want to Send Her Kids to School
By Kerry McDonald It’s back-to-school season and some parents aren’t happy about that. Take the example of Rousmery Negrón, a single mom of two boys who was featured in a recent Associated Press article on chronic absenteeism. After being insulted by his teacher and placed in a special classroom for students with alleged hyperactivity, her middle schooler didn’t want to … [Read more...] about To The Mom Who Doesn’t Want to Send Her Kids to School
The Dutch School of Understanding — “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report Tjeerd Andringa joins James on #SolutionsWatch to discuss his cancellation from his former position at the University of Groningen and, more importantly, how that prompted him to create the School of Understanding. Designed as a small-scale, decentralized, effective, and cheap solution to the problems of our current schooling, the School of … [Read more...] about The Dutch School of Understanding — “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
Carl Sagan Warned Us about Government Schools Decades Ago
By Jon Miltimore My wife and I recently met with the principal of the school our daughter attends to discuss her education future. My daughter, who turns 12 in a few days, wants to go to a different school in the fall, largely because many of her friends—who are a year ahead of her—are graduating to new schools. (And also because her teacher, whom she adored, took a job … [Read more...] about Carl Sagan Warned Us about Government Schools Decades Ago
A Rural, Waldorf Microschool Gets Shut Down By State Regulators
By Kerry McDonald Ariel Maguire gathered together with other moms in her rural area of the Big Island of Hawaii to create a child-centered educational solution for local families. It was late 2021 and the parents realized that nearly two years of pandemic policies had left their kids behind both academically and socially. There weren’t a lot of child care or … [Read more...] about A Rural, Waldorf Microschool Gets Shut Down By State Regulators
School Principal Quits Job To Homeschool Her 3 Kids On A 10-Acre Homestead: “I Wanted To Raise Thinkers”
By Louise Chambers A former school principal who grew frustrated with the school system quit her job and instead chose to homeschool her three kids on a 10-acre (4.05-hectare) homestead. Merging her children’s learning with their land and home, she has created an immersive “real world” educational experience based on her kids’ unique needs. Mandy Davis, 37, lives in … [Read more...] about School Principal Quits Job To Homeschool Her 3 Kids On A 10-Acre Homestead: “I Wanted To Raise Thinkers”