Pacific Research Institute

Classroom Ideology

Why Are Student Test Scores Plunging? Look at Politicized Education

By Lance Izumi & Wenyuan Wu Recent national student test scores showed a massive decline in learning in reading and math. This achievement implosion has several explanations – one is the increasing politicization of classroom instruction, which is reducing rigor and diverting attention from improving students’ foundational knowledge and skills. ...
California

Deacon Jim Vargas – Father Joe’s Villages

Father’s Joe’s Villages was established in 1950 to serve San Diegans experiencing homelessness and poverty. 
Education

A ‘To-Do List’ For Congress: Think Tank Urges Next Congress to Embrace Free-Market Vision on Health Care, Education, Energy

A ‘To-Do List’ For Congress: Think Tank Urges Next Congress to Embrace Free-Market Vision on Health Care, Education, Energy. Offers Reform Ideas with Potential for Bipartisan Appeal
Education

Policy To-Do Lists

Policy to-do Lists for Congress “The new Congress faces unfinished business: they need to expand patient choice and competition in health care, including rolling back the new price controls on drugs that discourage innovation and competition, reverse the pandemic’s effects on student learning, and eliminate expensive and burdensome government energy ...
Energy

Nick Loris – The Impact of “Green” Policies

Our guest this week is Nick Loris, Vice President of Public Policy at C3 Solutions, short for Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions.
Free Cities

California Think Tank Launches New ‘Free Cities Center’ to Incubate Free Market Ideas to Improve Cities

Pacific Research Institute today launched the “Free Cities Center,” an ambitious initiative cultivating innovative ideas to improve urban life based around freedom and property rights – not government.
California

OC Rescue Mission: How a Private Charity is Turning Around Lives More Effectively Than Government

Watch video tour of the Orange County Rescue Mission and interview with president Jim Palmer to learn how the private charity is turning lives around more effectively than traditional government homeless programs.
Latest Video

Bartlett Cleland – Current Contentions in Technology and Innovation

A known thought leader, writer, and speaker on all issues of innovation, communications and technology, PRI Senior Fellow Bartlett Cleland has spent his entire public policy career in the technology and innovation space.
Press Release

Dr. Kiron Skinner to Receive Taube Family Freedom Prize at Annual Pacific Research Institute Gala

SACRAMENTO – Best-selling author, former State Department official, and national security and foreign policy scholar Dr. Kiron Skinner will receive this year’s annual Taube Family Freedom Prize, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute announced today. Dr. Skinner will be presented with the award at PRI’s 2022 Sir Antony Fisher Gala, which ...
Charter School

Watch Lance Izumi Speak at OC Board of Ed Hearing on Charter Schools

Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, join fellow education reform advocates in addressing reporters before an Orange County Board of Education hearing on charter schools.  
Classroom Ideology

Why Are Student Test Scores Plunging? Look at Politicized Education

By Lance Izumi & Wenyuan Wu Recent national student test scores showed a massive decline in learning in reading and math. This achievement implosion has several explanations – one is the increasing politicization of classroom instruction, which is reducing rigor and diverting attention from improving students’ foundational knowledge and skills. ...
California

Deacon Jim Vargas – Father Joe’s Villages

Father’s Joe’s Villages was established in 1950 to serve San Diegans experiencing homelessness and poverty. 
Education

A ‘To-Do List’ For Congress: Think Tank Urges Next Congress to Embrace Free-Market Vision on Health Care, Education, Energy

A ‘To-Do List’ For Congress: Think Tank Urges Next Congress to Embrace Free-Market Vision on Health Care, Education, Energy. Offers Reform Ideas with Potential for Bipartisan Appeal
Education

Policy To-Do Lists

Policy to-do Lists for Congress “The new Congress faces unfinished business: they need to expand patient choice and competition in health care, including rolling back the new price controls on drugs that discourage innovation and competition, reverse the pandemic’s effects on student learning, and eliminate expensive and burdensome government energy ...
Energy

Nick Loris – The Impact of “Green” Policies

Our guest this week is Nick Loris, Vice President of Public Policy at C3 Solutions, short for Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions.
Free Cities

California Think Tank Launches New ‘Free Cities Center’ to Incubate Free Market Ideas to Improve Cities

Pacific Research Institute today launched the “Free Cities Center,” an ambitious initiative cultivating innovative ideas to improve urban life based around freedom and property rights – not government.
California

OC Rescue Mission: How a Private Charity is Turning Around Lives More Effectively Than Government

Watch video tour of the Orange County Rescue Mission and interview with president Jim Palmer to learn how the private charity is turning lives around more effectively than traditional government homeless programs.
Latest Video

Bartlett Cleland – Current Contentions in Technology and Innovation

A known thought leader, writer, and speaker on all issues of innovation, communications and technology, PRI Senior Fellow Bartlett Cleland has spent his entire public policy career in the technology and innovation space.
Press Release

Dr. Kiron Skinner to Receive Taube Family Freedom Prize at Annual Pacific Research Institute Gala

SACRAMENTO – Best-selling author, former State Department official, and national security and foreign policy scholar Dr. Kiron Skinner will receive this year’s annual Taube Family Freedom Prize, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute announced today. Dr. Skinner will be presented with the award at PRI’s 2022 Sir Antony Fisher Gala, which ...
Charter School

Watch Lance Izumi Speak at OC Board of Ed Hearing on Charter Schools

Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, join fellow education reform advocates in addressing reporters before an Orange County Board of Education hearing on charter schools.  
Scroll to Top