Lance Izumi
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Want to Help Homeless Children? Address Their Education
Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution recognizing November 2019 as Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month and, importantly, highlighted lack of education as a key characteristic of homeless youth. The Senate resolution noted that young people without a high school degree or general educational development certificate (GED) are significantly ...
Education
Lance Izumi Discusses Warren Education Plan on WIBW Topeka
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of Education Studies, talks about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s disastrous education plan with Nick Gosnell on WIBW in Topeka. Click here to listen. . .
Blog
Veterans Day and What It Means
As we celebrate Veterans Day and honor the men and women who have selflessly served our nation, it is important to understand that this special day is about both people and about ideas. At his final speech to the Corps of Cadets at West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Want to Help Homeless Children? Address Their Education
Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution recognizing November 2019 as Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month and, importantly, highlighted lack of education as a key characteristic of homeless youth. The Senate resolution noted that young people without a high school degree or general educational development certificate (GED) are significantly ...
Lance Izumi Discusses Warren Education Plan on WIBW Topeka
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of Education Studies, talks about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s disastrous education plan with Nick Gosnell on WIBW in Topeka. Click here to listen. . .
Veterans Day and What It Means
As we celebrate Veterans Day and honor the men and women who have selflessly served our nation, it is important to understand that this special day is about both people and about ideas. At his final speech to the Corps of Cadets at West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
