School choice
A crack at real choice in education
The Nevada Connections Academy will expand opportunity.
Choice for education in Nevada has long been greatly lacking. A small number of charter schools have existed, but they have been constantly and purposefully exposed and limited — for the best interests of the establishment, not the students.
Empowering Nevada's parents
My commitment to the fight for home-schooling freedom
In 1981, my five-year-old son failed kindergarten. The teacher said he was socially immature and would benefit from another year in kindergarten. As a young mother, I believed that the teacher knew best.
The turning of the tide
School choice advocates have the wind at their backs.
As Nevada’s political punditocracy spends the coming weeks reflecting on the 2007 legislative session, it’s unlikely any members will spill much ink over Senate Bill 158.
ACE is the place for results
Reno's Academy for Career Education places first in state competition
The Academy for Career Education (ACE) High School is a tuition-free, construction trades and engineering charter school for 10th- through 12th-grade students. Based in Reno, ACE offers students the opportunity to pursue an integrated academic curriculum while taking specific professional-level construction or engineering courses.
Time for clear thinking on CTE
Nevada students deserve the same opportunities provided in other parts of the world.
Anyone who has ever taught overseas can’t help but recognize the self-serving, idiosyncratic nature of the American public education system, compared to those in other countries.
NPRI's 2007 Roundtables
Career & Technical Education in Nevada
Many of Nevada's high school graduates are more inclined toward - and perhaps better suited for - an education that emphasizes technical and practical skills, rather than academics.
Time to get real on career and technical education
More educational freedom in Nevada could yield moretechnically skilled young people and less school violence
One of the biggest issues set to come before the 2007 Nevada Legislature will be discrimination by the state education system against students who want to start work right after high school rather than college.
What real innovation in education looks like
Davidson Academy and ACE Charter School break Nevada’s rigid mold
Many public schools pretend to be innovative while completely avoiding the substantive changes necessary for genuine innovation. Yet they always ask for more money.
Nevertheless, Nevada does have some solid examples of true educational innovation.
Teaching the Forgotten Half
Career and Vocational Education in Nevada's High Schools
For years, Nevada's public education system has ignored the particular nature of its community job base.
The Confession
Nevada’s Assembly Majority is telling us more than it realizes
Say what you will about the federal No Child Left Behind program. In one area, at least, it is producing clear-cut progress.
