Latest by Kerry McDonald in ITO

• Education

  May 22, 2020

  CDC's COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing

  Once the coronavirus pandemic is over, returning to schools with extreme virus controls and social distancing measures could be a traumatic experience for many kids.

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• Education

  May 19, 2020

  Harvard's Unjust Crusade Against Homeschooling Continues

  Various publications of Harvard University are working to back up Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet's call for a "presumptive ban" on homeschooling in America.

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• Culture

  April 20, 2020

  Five Things Harvard's Critique of Homeschooling Gets Wrong

  A recent article in Harvard Magazine produced a shockingly one-sided portrayal of home-schooling families in the United States.

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• Education

  April 8, 2020

  Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss

  With an abundance of digital resources available, parents need to relax about the state of their kids' educations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• Education

  March 12, 2020

  Coronavirus Reminds Us What Education Without School Can Look

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• Culture

  February 28, 2020

  Coronavirus May Lead to 'Mass Homeschooling'

  According to Kevin Carey of the New America think tank, coronavirus in the U.S. could lead to “a vast unplanned experiment in mass home-schooling.”

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• Education

  February 11, 2020

  The Vast Majority of High Schoolers Are Unhappy at School

  Nearly three-quarters of high school students report negative feelings toward school, and it seems like no one is working to fix this.

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• Education

  February 7, 2020

  Elon Musk Wants Talent, Not Diplomas

  Should skills matter more than a diploma or formal schooling? Elon Musk certainly thinks so.

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• Culture

  January 27, 2020

  'Miss Virginia' Depicts the Education Dilemma of Many Lower-Income Families

  Miss Virginia is a can't miss movie about a mother's struggle to ensure her child has a chance at a decent education.

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• Education

  January 8, 2020

  'We' Should Not Regulate Homeschooling

  An NPR story aired last week with the headline, “How Should We Regulate Homeschooling?” Short answer: “We” shouldn’t.

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• Education

  December 5, 2019

  Rose Wilder Lane: Pioneer of Educational Freedom

  The daughter of Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder, baby Rose, grew up to become an outspoken critic of Roosevelt’s New Deal, Social Security, and other government programs she felt disempowered individuals and gave greater authority to the state.

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• Culture

  October 24, 2019

  How Children Learn the Humanity of Trade

  Here's a great way to teach kids about markets. 

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• Education

  October 21, 2019

  Chicago Teachers’ Strike Shows Why We Don’t Need Public Schools

  Community education efforts are easily supplanting the public school days students are missing thanks to the teachers strike.

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• October 10, 2019

  When the Quest for Education Equity Stifles Innovation

  In the all-out quest for educational equity, innovation is systematically stifled. If not everyone can have something, then no one can.

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• Education

  September 27, 2019

  Early Starts in School Lead to Higher Rates of ADHD Diagnoses

  Children can often be nearly a year younger than their peers in the same grade, and this can lead to artificial diagnoses of ADHD and depression.

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• Culture

  September 25, 2019

  City Shuts Downs Preschoolers’ Farm Stand

  Governmental agencies can't even leave a preschool fundraiser alone anymore. Where will the bureaucracy end?

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• Culture

  September 16, 2019

  How Parents Can Help Their College Students' Mental Health

  College students are more stressed out and more depressed than ever before. Whose fault is this and what can be done about it?

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• Education

  August 16, 2019

  The Difference Between Public Libraries and Public Schools

  The main difference between public libraries and public schools is the level of coercion and state power that public schooling wields.

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• Education

  August 9, 2019

  Questioning the Back-To-School Default

  Schooling is the default. It's time to challenge defaults.

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• Culture

  July 30, 2019

  How Our Culture Disempowers Teens

  Rather than criticizing teenagers as lazy and in need of more control and structure, we should recognize the ways our culture infantilizes its teens.

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