The 2022 Education Landscape and the Coming Homeschool Tsunami
Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, recently delivered the following speech to the Northern California Lincoln Club....
11 April, 2022
Education
Featured
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Newsom’s education agenda: More of the same means more failure
While school mask mandates have garnered headlines, Californians should be as concerned about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed education agenda, which he championed this week in his State of the State address. It pours more tax dollar...
11 March, 2022 -
PRI Lance Izumi Discusses SF School Board Recall in Northern California Record
Sarah Downey With last week’s overwhelming vote to recall three San Francisco school board members, it’s raising questions about how the referendum could impact public education and politics across California as parents go to the ...
24 February, 2022
Podcast
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PRI Panel of Former Speechwriters – Pres. Biden’s State of the Union Address
This special edition podcast features PRI’s panel of former speechwriters offering their perspectives on Pres. Biden’s first State of the Union Address. On the panel: Lance Izumi, a former speechwriter to Gov. George Deukmejian a...
02 March, 2022 -
Lance Izumi – The Homeschool Boom
This podcast, recently celebrating National School Choice Week, features senior director of PRI’s Center for Education Lance Izumi discussing his recent book The Homeschool Boom: Pandemic, Policies and Possibilities. It also inclu...
07 February, 2022 -
Naomi Schaefer Riley – Child Welfare
Our podcast guest this week is Naomi Schaefer Riley, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the new book No Way Home: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists are Wrecking Young Lives. N...
24 January, 2022
Multimedia
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Lance Izumi Discusses The Homeschool Boom on The Voice of Reason
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his latest book The Homeschool Boom and other topics on the education landscape on “The Voice of Reason” with host Andy Hooser in Wich...
08 April, 2022 -
Listen to Lance Izumi on the Phil Cowan Show
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16 March, 2022 -
Listen to Lance Izumi on the Big Ideas EdChoice Podcast
Click to Listen to Lance Izumi on the EdChoice Podcast EdChoice · Ep. 303: Big Ideas — with Lance Izumi ShareTweetPinShare...
08 March, 2022
Books
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With Number of Homeschoolers Surpassing 8 Million, New PRI Book Explores The Homeschool Boom
Book examines growing homeschool appeal to minority communities, special needs students, families fleeing conventional schools Examining the growth of homeschool enrollment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonpartisan Pac...
15 November, 2021 -
Lance Izumi – A Kite in a Hurricane No More
Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, joins us to discuss his new book, which profiles the journey of Mia Giordano, who overcame learning disabilities through science and school choice. He discusses the prom...
30 November, 2020 -
Read “A Kite in a Hurricane No More”
Just Published: Follow the Journey of One Young Woman Who Overcame Learning Disabilities Through Science and Choice in new book, A Kite in a Hurricane No More In A Kite in a Hurricane No More, a new book just published by the nonp...
25 November, 2020
Recent Press
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Watch PRI’s Webinar on the Homeschool Boom
Watch PRI’s 2022 National School Choice Week webinar featuring Lance Izumi discussing his new book, The Homeschool Boom. He moderates a panel discussion with teachers and parents discussing the rise in parents exercising the...
27 January, 2022 -
Thousands of Kansas families stick with homeschooling after getting a taste during the pandemic
KMUW | By Suzanne Perez Published December 8, 2021 at 1:46 PM CST WICHITA, Kansas — Worried about safety, resistant to mask orders and troubled by a lack of confidence in public schools, thousands more Kansas parents are opting to...
09 December, 2021 -
With Number of Homeschoolers Surpassing 8 Million, New PRI Book Explores The Homeschool Boom
Book examines growing homeschool appeal to minority communities, special needs students, families fleeing conventional schools Examining the growth of homeschool enrollment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonpartisan Pac...
15 November, 2021
Commentary
Woke Math Returns to California
Like the return of the undead, woke math has come back to haunt California’s classrooms and make it even harder for the state’s struggling students to receive a quality education. Last year, the California Department o...
07 May, 2022Biden Administration Copying California Law to Stifle Charter Schools
By Lance Izumi & McKenzie Richards Imagine a world where budding businesses would be required to both obtain permission to enter the marketplace from competitors and then prove to the government that their business would serve...
27 April, 2022Diversity Smokescreen
By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Andrew I. Fillat The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two more cases challenging the use of race as a criterion in college admissions, as has allegedly happened at Harvard University (a private i...
21 March, 2022