Education
Wishing Upon a Superstar
The Clark County School District chronically fails its mission because it is a government monopoly, protected from market forces.
University Chancellor and TV station mogul Jim Rogers believes the way to fix the Clark County School District is to hire a “superstar” as superintendent to turn the dysfunctional district around.
Why Nevada Public Education Is Not About to Improve
Legislative initiatives don’t deal with the real issues
Here in Nevada the political class endlessly professes its dedication to getting our public schools out of their seemingly interminable rut.
In Thrall to Dewey’s Ghost
By its very nature, Progressivism does not prize, and therefore cannot prioritize, actual learning.
The basic problem with Nevada's colleges of education is that their core teacher-training agenda is—speaking candidly—essentially bogus.
Squid
Like cuttlefish and octopi, educationists have evolved their own set of reflexes to confuse and mislead
Education historian Diane Ravitch and others often point out the long-running disagreement over the goals of education that exists between parents and those who’ve taken control of the U.S. public education establishment.
The ‘48th in the Nation’ Ruse
Civil society and freedom, not big government and politics, hold the key to solving Nevada’s 'social ills'.
For years, power-hungry Nevada politicians thought they knew precisely how to guilt-trip Silver State voters into submitting to ever-bigger government and ever-higher taxes.
The ‘Open Meeting Law’ Distraction
For many months now, Nevada’s university regents have been virtually locked in the public stocks over what the Attorney General and a district court judge recently agreed were violations of the state’s open meeting law.
Artful Dodgers and ‘National Average Funding’
The so-called “national average funding” constitutional amendment on November’s ballot would—despite its name—actually raise the total per-pupil tax burden on Nevadans significantly above the national average.
NPRI Education Roundtables
A Report by the Nevada Policy Research Institute
Can money alone cure the problems that ail Nevada's educational institutions?
Nevada’s alienation factories
Early in the 20th Century, when corporatists, socialists and other self-proclaimed “progressives” were casting around for ways to sell their various collectivisms to mainstream America, the concept of industrial mass production struck many of them as just the ticket.
Drain the Swamp
In a recent letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal a retired teacher noted that a national study ranked Nevada 39th among states in high school graduation rates and 49th in college freshmen dropouts.
