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KCBS Interviews Lance Izumi on SAT/ACT Suspension

KCBS news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke with Lance Izumi, Director of the Pacific Research Institute, about the announcement by University of California President Janet Napolitano recommending that all 10 campuses in the UC system suspend the SAT and ACT college admission tests in favor of UC specific ...
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Common Core Has Set Back Student Achievement in California

Back in 2012, I wrote a book entitled Obama’s Education Takeover that warned about the harmful impact that the Common Core national education standards would have on student achievement, especially in California.  Now a just released study confirms my predictions. Pushed by a cabal including the Obama administration, Microsoft’s Bill ...
Charter Schools

Charters Are Pivoting to Online Education Better than Traditional Schools

With conventional schools shut down because of COVID-19, school officials are scrambling to provide students with education services through the use of online-learning tools. However, some types of schools are having greater success in transitioning to online education, and often those schools are charter schools. First, it is noteworthy that ...
Coronavirus

Listen to Lance Izumi Discuss Online Learning During COVID-19 on “The Freedom Line” Podcast

Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss online learning and homeschooling during the COVID-19 crisis with host Renee Giachino on the Center for Individual Freedom’s “Freedom Line” podcast. Click here to listen
Coronavirus

Watch: Online Learning and Homeschooling Options During the COVID-19 Crisis

Watch the latest Pacific Research Institute webinar featuring a panel of policy experts, education specialists, and homeschooling practitioners discussing how schools and parents have transitioned to schooling at home through the use of distance and online-learning tools and curricula. The panelists discuss the many options available to parents and how ...
Blog

March2Success: The Army’s Online Education Tool is Helping Students During COVID-19 School Closures

During the COVID-19 crisis, the efforts of the United States Army have been very prominent, especially Army researchers working on a vaccine and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ incredible work building field hospital facilities around the country.  However, also important has been the Army’s provision of free online education ...
Charter Schools

Lance Izumi – Online Learning and Homeschooling During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, joins us to discuss a situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic that millions of parents never though they’d find themselves in – homeschooling their kids. He shares advice from experts to parents on homeschooling, shares online education and homeschooling resources, discusses ...
Coronavirus

The Lars Larson Show Interviews Lance Izumi on Distance Learning During the Coronavirus

Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Education Fellow, talks about the benefits of distance or online learning and homeschooling since schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Izumi talks about the many technological and time-saving benefits for students and parents using online learning tools and what that could mean for education once ...
Charter Schools

Homeschooling Advice for Parents During School Shutdowns

With conventional schools shut down across America due to the coronavirus, many parents are considering homeschooling, but have questions about how to begin and how to get the best results for their children. Someone who has answers for these parents is Sarah Bailey, founder of Love of Learning Homeschool Learning Center, ...
Charter Schools

Coronavirus school shutdowns foster online learning alternatives

Along with other sectors of society, education has been greatly affected by the coronavirus, with schools closed across America. Yet, as in other fields, innovators in education have responded with learning mechanisms and models that allow students to continue to learn while the country shuts down brick-and-mortar institutions. As it ...
Coronavirus

KCBS Interviews Lance Izumi on SAT/ACT Suspension

KCBS news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke with Lance Izumi, Director of the Pacific Research Institute, about the announcement by University of California President Janet Napolitano recommending that all 10 campuses in the UC system suspend the SAT and ACT college admission tests in favor of UC specific ...
Blog

Common Core Has Set Back Student Achievement in California

Back in 2012, I wrote a book entitled Obama’s Education Takeover that warned about the harmful impact that the Common Core national education standards would have on student achievement, especially in California.  Now a just released study confirms my predictions. Pushed by a cabal including the Obama administration, Microsoft’s Bill ...
Charter Schools

Charters Are Pivoting to Online Education Better than Traditional Schools

With conventional schools shut down because of COVID-19, school officials are scrambling to provide students with education services through the use of online-learning tools. However, some types of schools are having greater success in transitioning to online education, and often those schools are charter schools. First, it is noteworthy that ...
Coronavirus

Listen to Lance Izumi Discuss Online Learning During COVID-19 on “The Freedom Line” Podcast

Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss online learning and homeschooling during the COVID-19 crisis with host Renee Giachino on the Center for Individual Freedom’s “Freedom Line” podcast. Click here to listen
Coronavirus

Watch: Online Learning and Homeschooling Options During the COVID-19 Crisis

Watch the latest Pacific Research Institute webinar featuring a panel of policy experts, education specialists, and homeschooling practitioners discussing how schools and parents have transitioned to schooling at home through the use of distance and online-learning tools and curricula. The panelists discuss the many options available to parents and how ...
Blog

March2Success: The Army’s Online Education Tool is Helping Students During COVID-19 School Closures

During the COVID-19 crisis, the efforts of the United States Army have been very prominent, especially Army researchers working on a vaccine and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ incredible work building field hospital facilities around the country.  However, also important has been the Army’s provision of free online education ...
Charter Schools

Lance Izumi – Online Learning and Homeschooling During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, joins us to discuss a situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic that millions of parents never though they’d find themselves in – homeschooling their kids. He shares advice from experts to parents on homeschooling, shares online education and homeschooling resources, discusses ...
Coronavirus

The Lars Larson Show Interviews Lance Izumi on Distance Learning During the Coronavirus

Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Education Fellow, talks about the benefits of distance or online learning and homeschooling since schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Izumi talks about the many technological and time-saving benefits for students and parents using online learning tools and what that could mean for education once ...
Charter Schools

Homeschooling Advice for Parents During School Shutdowns

With conventional schools shut down across America due to the coronavirus, many parents are considering homeschooling, but have questions about how to begin and how to get the best results for their children. Someone who has answers for these parents is Sarah Bailey, founder of Love of Learning Homeschool Learning Center, ...
Charter Schools

Coronavirus school shutdowns foster online learning alternatives

Along with other sectors of society, education has been greatly affected by the coronavirus, with schools closed across America. Yet, as in other fields, innovators in education have responded with learning mechanisms and models that allow students to continue to learn while the country shuts down brick-and-mortar institutions. As it ...
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