Education
Blended Learning
The Future Is Now – Ed Tech And Blended Learning
Watch PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom – “The Future is Now.” The panel is moderated by PRI’s Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education. Panelists include Paul Escala of Grimmway Academy, Senate Republican Leader ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 8, 2016
Business & Economics
Impact Magazine — Winter 2016
Read the Magazine This edition of IMPACT includes a special feature on our new study The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact by PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Wayne Winegarden – released on November 1st. This important study confirms that big federal government programs like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 5, 2016
Commentary
Choice Media Education Story of the Day
Watch PRI’s Lance Izumi present the Choice Media education story of the day. Chicago Teachers Union sets Oct. 11 strike date (Chicago Tribune)
Pacific Research Institute
September 30, 2016
Charter Schools
Donald Trump Says He Will Be “Biggest Cheerleader” for School Choice
Republican nominee Donald Trump says that, if elected president, he will make school choice the center of his education plan and will use $20 billion to establish a block grant to fund school choice for children living in low-income areas. Public schools are “our government-run monopoly” that has “trapped millions ...
Lance Izumi
September 15, 2016
Charter Schools
Black Lives Matter vs. Charter Schools
The Movement for Black Lives Matter coalition has recently issued education-policy “demands” that demonstrate that not all the lives of black children matter to the group. In the preamble of the BLM demands, the group uses language that seems drawn straight from teacher-union talking points. BLM talks about “an international ...
Lance Izumi
September 7, 2016
Commentary
The Friedrichs Case: Why the Supreme Court pick means so much
In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump emphasized once again that the issue of replacing late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with someone of similar conservative judicial philosophy “will be one of the most important decided by this election.” There is no better example of ...
Lance T. izumi
August 16, 2016
California
#Charterswork School: Profile Clayton Valley Charter High School
Clayton Valley Charter High School (CVCHS) is an exemplar of how charter school conversion can rejuvenate a suffering public school. Founded in 1958 as Clayton Valley High School, it served part of Concord and nearby Clayton as a traditional public high school for more than 50 years. The idea to ...
Jenna Zendarski
August 4, 2016
Commentary
Trump’s right — the system is rigged. Look at Common Core
Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump has argued that our political, policy and economic systems are rigged against ordinary Americans. The process that gave us Common Core is a perfect example of a rigged system in action. Back in June 2009, two big Washington, D.C.-based organizations — the National Governors Association ...
Lance T. izumi
August 3, 2016
Commentary
Donald Trump Jr. Hits Home Run On Education
The politically motivated scramble of liberal “gotcha” journalists to accuse Donald Trump Jr. of cribbing verbiage in his convention speech, which subsequently exploded in their collective faces, unfortunately obscured Mr. Trump’s incisive points on the deplorable state of government-run education and the need to empower parents. In his speech, Mr. ...
Lance T. izumi
July 21, 2016
Business & Economics
Proposed Regulatory Expansion Threatens The Education Market
The federal government has taken over the student loan market and currently guarantees (or directly holds) about 90 percent of the 40 million student loans valued in excess of $1.2 trillion. The millions of people at risk of defaulting on this huge student loan portfolio is a large and growing ...
Wayne Winegarden
June 30, 2016
The Future Is Now – Ed Tech And Blended Learning
Watch PRI’s recent panel discussion on ed tech and blended learning in the classroom – “The Future is Now.” The panel is moderated by PRI’s Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education. Panelists include Paul Escala of Grimmway Academy, Senate Republican Leader ...
Impact Magazine — Winter 2016
Read the Magazine This edition of IMPACT includes a special feature on our new study The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact by PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Wayne Winegarden – released on November 1st. This important study confirms that big federal government programs like the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan ...
Choice Media Education Story of the Day
Watch PRI’s Lance Izumi present the Choice Media education story of the day. Chicago Teachers Union sets Oct. 11 strike date (Chicago Tribune)
Donald Trump Says He Will Be “Biggest Cheerleader” for School Choice
Republican nominee Donald Trump says that, if elected president, he will make school choice the center of his education plan and will use $20 billion to establish a block grant to fund school choice for children living in low-income areas. Public schools are “our government-run monopoly” that has “trapped millions ...
Black Lives Matter vs. Charter Schools
The Movement for Black Lives Matter coalition has recently issued education-policy “demands” that demonstrate that not all the lives of black children matter to the group. In the preamble of the BLM demands, the group uses language that seems drawn straight from teacher-union talking points. BLM talks about “an international ...
The Friedrichs Case: Why the Supreme Court pick means so much
In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump emphasized once again that the issue of replacing late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with someone of similar conservative judicial philosophy “will be one of the most important decided by this election.” There is no better example of ...
#Charterswork School: Profile Clayton Valley Charter High School
Clayton Valley Charter High School (CVCHS) is an exemplar of how charter school conversion can rejuvenate a suffering public school. Founded in 1958 as Clayton Valley High School, it served part of Concord and nearby Clayton as a traditional public high school for more than 50 years. The idea to ...
Trump’s right — the system is rigged. Look at Common Core
Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump has argued that our political, policy and economic systems are rigged against ordinary Americans. The process that gave us Common Core is a perfect example of a rigged system in action. Back in June 2009, two big Washington, D.C.-based organizations — the National Governors Association ...
Donald Trump Jr. Hits Home Run On Education
The politically motivated scramble of liberal “gotcha” journalists to accuse Donald Trump Jr. of cribbing verbiage in his convention speech, which subsequently exploded in their collective faces, unfortunately obscured Mr. Trump’s incisive points on the deplorable state of government-run education and the need to empower parents. In his speech, Mr. ...
Proposed Regulatory Expansion Threatens The Education Market
The federal government has taken over the student loan market and currently guarantees (or directly holds) about 90 percent of the 40 million student loans valued in excess of $1.2 trillion. The millions of people at risk of defaulting on this huge student loan portfolio is a large and growing ...