The Ripple Effect Podcast #203 (Kerry McDonald | Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Bryan, Society & Culture, Callen, Philosophy, Carlin, Bill, 6, Dave

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor.

Kerry's research interests include homeschooling and alternatives to school, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, Reason Magazine, City Journal, and Entrepreneur, among others. She has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College.

Kerry lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple effect.
0:25.6	The ripple fact. I'm I'm I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	I'm
0:40.3	I'm your host, Rickado Vrendez, also known as Ricky Verandes, and I said another episode
1:15.6	of the Ripple Effect Podcast.
1:16.6	This might be the last episode of a podcast called the Ripple Effect Podcast.
1:22.6	I'll get into that in a second, but first, let me let you know about my guest, author of Unschooled, Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom.
1:34.7	I'm assuming by that title, you probably know what the podcast is about.
1:38.9	It was a great conversation about parenting, schooling, learning, alternative ways of looking at learning and education
1:47.1	and schooling.
1:48.5	So a really, really fun podcast.
1:51.2	So I hope you check out her book.
1:53.1	She's been interviewed a bunch of places.
1:55.0	Check out some of her past interviews.
1:56.9	And Carrie McDonald was just a really well-spoken well-thought-out parent and uh author and it was just a fun
2:06.4	fun conversation so my brain's a little scattered a little bit because i had issues with my
2:10.8	wifi before this podcast then um i'm also dealing with another issue so friday today today is November 5th, which is a Tuesday.
2:21.3	I believe it was Friday or Saturday morning.
2:23.2	I get a email from Potomatic talking about a season desist letter from a, honestly, at the time I didn't know, i don't even know what it was about or or whatnot
2:38.8	but apparently somebody else has used the term the ripple effect podcast for the show and they have a
2:45.7	trademark for the term the ripple effect and supposedly they had a podcast and it was all news to me because if
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