Education
Charter Schools
Warren’s ‘Big Fat Payoff to the Unions’ Education Plan
Recently, Senator Elizabeth Warren released her education plan titled “A Great Public School Education for Every Student,” but the scheme should have been named “My Big Fat Payoff to the Teacher Unions.” The publicity splash in Warren’s plan is her call to quadruple funding for the federal Title I program, which funnels ...
Blog
California Student Test-Score Plunge: Common Core a Likely Culprit
The results of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” came out recently and California’s scores once again tanked, with one of the likely causes being the national Common Core standards and aligned curricula. The NAEP exam, which is given every two years, tests ...
California
Evan Harris Responds to NCAA Move on Student Athlete Images on Newsy TV
NCAA Will Let Athletes Profit Off Their Names, Images And Likenesses By Adam Elrashidi The NCAA’s board said each division has to draft and enact the necessary rules no later than January 2021. The NCAA, the national governing body for collegiate athletics, ruled Tuesday that student athletes will be allowed ...
Blog
California is AWOL on Teacher Leadership Policies
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on the National Council on Teacher Quality’s excellent research on California’s failed teacher quality policies, and now the organization has followed up by releasing a new analysis showing that California is AWOL when it comes to policies on teacher leadership. The NCTQ ...
Charter Schools
Lance Izumi Joins the Lars Larson Show to Criticize Sen. Warren’s New Education Plan
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director for the Center for Education joined the Lars Larson Show to discuss U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s latest education proposal, that includes banning federal funding of charter schools and supporting a cap on new charter schools.
Blended Learning
Rx for the iGen Generation: Intellectual Virtue, Not Safe Spaces
While many adults are perplexed by today’s young people, a number of important books offer insight and answers to why, according to the cover of one of them, “Today’s super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood.” Members of today’s iGen generation were ...
Blog
What We’re Watching – October 18
Tim Anaya – Mark Zuckerberg on the Power of Expression Caught between a rock and a hard place amidst strict criticism over political censorship and calls for the government to break it up, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the case this week at Georgetown that the enormity of the Internet ...
Commentary
Even post-Janus, worker freedom remains at risk in some states
The response by states to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Janus ruling, which said that it was unconstitutional to require non-union government workers to pay fees to public-employee unions, has ranged from underhanded attempts to save the unions’ bacon, to good-faith efforts to implement the spirit of the ruling. This dichotomy is ...
California
Classroom Indoctrination Is Causing A Rise In Homeschooling
Watching leftist politicians such as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio goading students to go on “strike” to protest climate change underscored for many American parents the increasing political indoctrination going on in the nation’s public schools, which will likely cause many of them to more seriously consider taking ...
Blog
California Teacher Quality Policies Among Nation’s Worst
While California’s teacher unions are winning expensive battles on the strike lines and are flexing their political muscle in Sacramento, new research shows that state teacher-quality policies are failing to ensure that every public-school classroom in the state has a highly effective teacher. In Oakland and Los Angeles, the teacher ...
Warren’s ‘Big Fat Payoff to the Unions’ Education Plan
Recently, Senator Elizabeth Warren released her education plan titled “A Great Public School Education for Every Student,” but the scheme should have been named “My Big Fat Payoff to the Teacher Unions.” The publicity splash in Warren’s plan is her call to quadruple funding for the federal Title I program, which funnels ...
California Student Test-Score Plunge: Common Core a Likely Culprit
The results of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” came out recently and California’s scores once again tanked, with one of the likely causes being the national Common Core standards and aligned curricula. The NAEP exam, which is given every two years, tests ...
Evan Harris Responds to NCAA Move on Student Athlete Images on Newsy TV
NCAA Will Let Athletes Profit Off Their Names, Images And Likenesses By Adam Elrashidi The NCAA’s board said each division has to draft and enact the necessary rules no later than January 2021. The NCAA, the national governing body for collegiate athletics, ruled Tuesday that student athletes will be allowed ...
California is AWOL on Teacher Leadership Policies
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on the National Council on Teacher Quality’s excellent research on California’s failed teacher quality policies, and now the organization has followed up by releasing a new analysis showing that California is AWOL when it comes to policies on teacher leadership. The NCTQ ...
Lance Izumi Joins the Lars Larson Show to Criticize Sen. Warren’s New Education Plan
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director for the Center for Education joined the Lars Larson Show to discuss U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s latest education proposal, that includes banning federal funding of charter schools and supporting a cap on new charter schools.
Rx for the iGen Generation: Intellectual Virtue, Not Safe Spaces
While many adults are perplexed by today’s young people, a number of important books offer insight and answers to why, according to the cover of one of them, “Today’s super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood.” Members of today’s iGen generation were ...
What We’re Watching – October 18
Tim Anaya – Mark Zuckerberg on the Power of Expression Caught between a rock and a hard place amidst strict criticism over political censorship and calls for the government to break it up, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the case this week at Georgetown that the enormity of the Internet ...
Even post-Janus, worker freedom remains at risk in some states
The response by states to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Janus ruling, which said that it was unconstitutional to require non-union government workers to pay fees to public-employee unions, has ranged from underhanded attempts to save the unions’ bacon, to good-faith efforts to implement the spirit of the ruling. This dichotomy is ...
Classroom Indoctrination Is Causing A Rise In Homeschooling
Watching leftist politicians such as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio goading students to go on “strike” to protest climate change underscored for many American parents the increasing political indoctrination going on in the nation’s public schools, which will likely cause many of them to more seriously consider taking ...
California Teacher Quality Policies Among Nation’s Worst
While California’s teacher unions are winning expensive battles on the strike lines and are flexing their political muscle in Sacramento, new research shows that state teacher-quality policies are failing to ensure that every public-school classroom in the state has a highly effective teacher. In Oakland and Los Angeles, the teacher ...
