Patrick R. Gibbons
Where is this deregulation you speak of Ms. Maddow?
Rachel Maddow, the dogmatic, left-wing host of an MSNBC "news-based" show, asserted last week that deregulation not only caused the world financial crisis, but that deregulation is causing average Americans to increasingly become impoverished. Although the facts don't square at all with Maddow's misconceptions, many Americans share her outlook.
Spending for spending’s sake
Simply throwing money at education is not the solution
Many believe that increasing per-pupil spending will improve education in Nevada and that Nevada spending per student ranks only 43rd in the nation. These individuals further assume that our public schools' low achievement and ostensibly low spending must be linked.
Failure Is No Longer an Option
Florida’s Decade of Education Improvement Proves Reform Works
Florida has experienced a significant increase in student achievement over the past 10 years, while Nevada's educational performance during that same time has remained relatively flat. Nevada could replicate Florida's success by implementing similar measures.
Failure is not success
In George Orwell's famous novel about a dystopian future, 1984, the totalitarian state has a slogan announcing that, "War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, Ignorance is Strength." Such doublespeak may seem unbelievable to us today, but when it comes to education in Nevada, many indulge beliefs equally as absurd.
Socialist Sweden's universal voucher program
As mentioned previously, the empirical evidence supporting school-choice programs is mounting, and public opinion in the United States is swiftly growing in favor of parental-choice programs.
Will Horsford stop the NSEA from preventing true ed reform?
In a recent Las Vegas Sun article, Nevada State Education Association President Lynn Warne criticizes State Senator Steven Horsford (D). "If he represents the children," said Warne, "why has he represented them in such a way that has left them sitting in overcrowded classrooms with lack of supplies and teaching materials?"
How will teachers' unions respond to robot teachers?
Many Americans seem upset that jobs are being "outsourced" overseas. Others are upset with Mexicans who immigrate, legally or otherwise, and are taking "American jobs." Both groups are worried about cheap labor "taking our jobs."
