Hybrid homeschooling (with Mike McShane)

What this episode covers

Over the past few months, nearly every student in America has gotten a taste of what home-based learning has to offer. As many families have discovered, homeschooling has its ups and downs. On the plus-side, it can allow parents to spend more time with their children, more deeply engage in their children’s schooling, and craft unique learning opportunities specific to their children’s interests. On the flipside, homeschooling is time intensive and doesn’t always include the community and access to expertise that comes along with traditional schooling. The ideal for many children, it seems, would be something in the middle. As it turns out, that something has a name: hybrid homeschooling. On this episode of “The Report Card,” Nat Malkus talks with Mike McShane about hybrid homeschooling — what it is, who it’s for, and why it has broad appeal for conservatives and non-conservatives alike. McShane is the director of national research at Ed Choice, a senior fellow at the Show-Me Institute, and an adjunct fellow at AEI. McShane is the author of a recent AEI “Sketching a New Conservative Agenda” paper on hybrid homeschooling and will be publishing a book on the topic later this year