This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Monday, October 21st, 2004.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The pandemic quickened a trend toward homeschooling and in the time since

entrepreneurship in education has expanded dramatically according to Cato

adjunct scholar Carrie McDonald she stresses that protecting those education

entrepreneurs from state regulation

is of key importance to extend gains for student learning for years to come.

We spoke last week.

We've discussed it here on this program several times,

which was the sort of large upheaval in education

that the pandemic gave us.

But the trends that we saw spike in 2020, they were underway before the pandemic

started.

There was this pretty significant movement, you know,

due in part to dissatisfaction with assigned public schools to the

availability of technology and I would say probably the wealth that Americans enjoy

broadly to allow parents in some cases the luxury of being able to really customize their kids

educations. Can you help us sort of understand broadly what we've seen in recent years about how families think about the process of delivering education to young people? Yeah, Caleb, you know, I think what we've seen... of from a system that's largely been defined by standardization and stagnation to one that is increasingly defined by individualization and innovation.

And this, as you mentioned, was occurring pre-2020.

I know I wrote a lot about the growth and diversification of the homeschooling

movement in my 2019 unschooled book talked a lot about the emergence of the micro-schooling

movement or the sort of highly individualized intentionally small flexibly scheduled private schools that were again expanding prior to 2020

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