Lance Izumi
Commentary
School Choice Programs Are Needed To Save America’s Public Schools
America’s public school systems are going bankrupt, as they pour money they don’t have into programs that enrich employees at the expense of students. The Los Angeles Unified School District could face an estimated $422 million budget shortfall in 2019. Baltimore’s schools are $130 million in the hole. Illinois officials ...
Commentary
School Choice Can Protect Kids From Classroom Indoctrination
Progressive educators are launching new offensives in the nation’s culture wars. Washington State, for example, has put a sex-education curriculum, developed in part by Planned Parenthood, on its approved list, which has caused controversy in places like Spokane. Nevada’s Washoe County School District is currently debatinga sex education curriculum that would introduce ...
Education
Lance Izumi on The Lars Larson Show
PRI’s Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education Lance Izumi joins Lars Larson to talk about his recent Washington Examiner column on students being subjected to violence sexual assault in the classroom. In his recent book The Corrupt Classroom, Lance discusses how students subjected ...
Commentary
Advice for Secretary DeVos: Remember the Trump Base
The continuing campus protests by the Left against U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos may grab the headlines, but another real political concern for her and the president lies with her relationship with the Right. The importance of the base for President Donald Trump cannot be overstated. Mark Penn, the ...
Commentary
Harvey Weinsteins And Their Enablers Also Run Our Public Schools
Meet teacher Mitchell Whitehurst, the Harvey Weinstein of public education. Meet the Portland Public Schools, the education Hollywood of enablers. Meet the Portland teachers union, which like the Mafia in The Godfather, practices “omerta,” or silence when questioned. And meet the children, victims of a heinous sexual predator shielded by ...
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Students need an escape from public school violence
Recently, a fistfight between two female students at an Alabama high school erupted into a campus-wide fracas that ended in gunfire. A massive brawl at a North Carolina school resulted in multiple arrests. And in San Diego, several teenage boys were rushed to the emergency room with stab wounds after ...
Commentary
As Values Clash, Give Parents Choice
In their August opinion essay on the Philadelphia Inquirer’s website, law professors Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania and Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego decried the loss of universally accepted “bourgeois” values in America, from marriage to patriotism to getting an education necessary for gainful employment. ...
Commentary
Lance Izumi on The Lars Larson Show
Listen to Lance Izumi’s recent interview on the national radio show, “The Lars Larson Show” on his book The Corrupt Classroom. Lance’s interview beings at the 56:00 mark. Click here to learn more or buy a copy of The Corrupt Classroom.
Commentary
Lance Izumi Interviewed By Frank Beckmann on “The Corrupt Classroom”
PRI’s Koret senior fellow in education and senior director of education studies Lance Izumi discusses his new book, The Corrupt Classroom with Frank Beckmann on WJR Radio in Detroit. To learn more about The Corrupt Classroom, click here.
Commentary
Students Need An Escape From Public School Violence
America’s public schools are starting to resemble war zones. Recently, a fistfight between two female students at a Mobile, Alabama high school erupted into a campus-wide fracas that ended in gunfire. A massive lunchroom brawl at a North Carolina school resulted in multiple arrests. And in San Diego, several teenage ...
School Choice Programs Are Needed To Save America’s Public Schools
America’s public school systems are going bankrupt, as they pour money they don’t have into programs that enrich employees at the expense of students. The Los Angeles Unified School District could face an estimated $422 million budget shortfall in 2019. Baltimore’s schools are $130 million in the hole. Illinois officials ...
School Choice Can Protect Kids From Classroom Indoctrination
Progressive educators are launching new offensives in the nation’s culture wars. Washington State, for example, has put a sex-education curriculum, developed in part by Planned Parenthood, on its approved list, which has caused controversy in places like Spokane. Nevada’s Washoe County School District is currently debatinga sex education curriculum that would introduce ...
Lance Izumi on The Lars Larson Show
PRI’s Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education Lance Izumi joins Lars Larson to talk about his recent Washington Examiner column on students being subjected to violence sexual assault in the classroom. In his recent book The Corrupt Classroom, Lance discusses how students subjected ...
Advice for Secretary DeVos: Remember the Trump Base
The continuing campus protests by the Left against U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos may grab the headlines, but another real political concern for her and the president lies with her relationship with the Right. The importance of the base for President Donald Trump cannot be overstated. Mark Penn, the ...
Harvey Weinsteins And Their Enablers Also Run Our Public Schools
Meet teacher Mitchell Whitehurst, the Harvey Weinstein of public education. Meet the Portland Public Schools, the education Hollywood of enablers. Meet the Portland teachers union, which like the Mafia in The Godfather, practices “omerta,” or silence when questioned. And meet the children, victims of a heinous sexual predator shielded by ...
Students need an escape from public school violence
Recently, a fistfight between two female students at an Alabama high school erupted into a campus-wide fracas that ended in gunfire. A massive brawl at a North Carolina school resulted in multiple arrests. And in San Diego, several teenage boys were rushed to the emergency room with stab wounds after ...
As Values Clash, Give Parents Choice
In their August opinion essay on the Philadelphia Inquirer’s website, law professors Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania and Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego decried the loss of universally accepted “bourgeois” values in America, from marriage to patriotism to getting an education necessary for gainful employment. ...
Lance Izumi on The Lars Larson Show
Listen to Lance Izumi’s recent interview on the national radio show, “The Lars Larson Show” on his book The Corrupt Classroom. Lance’s interview beings at the 56:00 mark. Click here to learn more or buy a copy of The Corrupt Classroom.
Lance Izumi Interviewed By Frank Beckmann on “The Corrupt Classroom”
PRI’s Koret senior fellow in education and senior director of education studies Lance Izumi discusses his new book, The Corrupt Classroom with Frank Beckmann on WJR Radio in Detroit. To learn more about The Corrupt Classroom, click here.
Students Need An Escape From Public School Violence
America’s public schools are starting to resemble war zones. Recently, a fistfight between two female students at a Mobile, Alabama high school erupted into a campus-wide fracas that ended in gunfire. A massive lunchroom brawl at a North Carolina school resulted in multiple arrests. And in San Diego, several teenage ...
