Below is one of the most informative and detailed articles I’ve come across regarding the whole language fiasco. The Weekly Standard’s “Read it and weep” by Charlotte Allen is far too long to print here. Key excerpts include:
American young people are also significantly behind their counterparts in other developed [...]
I came across this group by way of Mike Antonucci’s Education Intelligence Agency
COMMUNIQUÉ. Mike has good stuff.
Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) was formed to, as they say below, “press for real education reform” and “we were frightened by our own party’s unwillingness to take on powerful entrenched interests [...]
The Office of the Attorney General agreed with my concerns as a trustee of the Carson City School District that an agenda item for the district’s January 9, 2007 meeting was vague, too broad, and lacked specificity in violation of the Open Meeting Law (OML). I raised this issue before [...]
Joe Enge to appear on the Heidi Harris Show, KDWN Radio AM 720 Las Vegas Friday morning around 9:30 for the Nevada Policy Research Institute. The topic will be about teacher unrest in Clark County and the Association of American Educators as a real professional alternative to the [...]
As reported by Samantha Stone with KOH Radio this morning, 2 of the 4 charges Joe Enge with EdWatch Nevada filed against state board member Gary Waters in June of 2006 in trying to implement TeenScreen have been upheld to warrant a formal hearing with the Nevada Commission on Ethics [...]
Nevadans won’t settle for business-as-usual placebos like full-day kindergarten
By Joe Enge
Published in the July issue of Liberty Watch Magazine
In a mad rush to jack up education spending by more than $1 billion during the 2007 legislative session — without any serious and badly needed education reforms involving choice or [...]
The peasants are beginning to revolt.
By Joe Enge
Published by the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s E-Bulletin June 29, 2007
Teachers often bemoan the fact that they are neither seen nor treated as true professionals. It is true that teachers are not held in nearly as high a regard in American culture [...]
Published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on July 9 as a letter to the editor.
To the editor:
Because more and more teachers in Clark County have expressed discontent with their representative unit, the Clark County Education Association, the Teamsters have decided to throw their hat in the ring.
But the [...]
• What did you think about Chancellor Rogers’s Self-Evaluation?
It was superficial, self-serving and Pollyanna-ish. It missed most of the major issues and misrepresented much.
• What would you say about the Chancellor’s relationship with the 8 institutions that comprise the system?
Chancellor Rogers’ relationship with the eight institutions that comprise the System is mixed [...]
By Andy Matthews
May 18, 2007
Record Courier
Nevada’s public education system rightly demands that students do their homework, think critically and resist following the crowd in response to peer pressure.
Yet sadly, they do not practice what they preach and it is the students and the public who pay the [...]
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley is getting frustrated in her attempts to fund All-day K. Never mind the lack of evidence to prove it works. Never mind K-12’s salient problems are at the secondary level. Never mind budget projections require decreasing state spending increases. Never mind Governor Gibbons has safeguarded the [...]
Difficulties in Reconciling the Political Rhetoric & Claims with the Research & Realities of All-Day Kindergarten
Joe Enge, Education Analyst, Nevada Policy Research Institute
Presentation to the Assembly Ways & Means Committee
May 3, 2007
Research Issues: Short lists of citations with major omissions of critical studies & peer reviews
• The booklet titled [...]
For Immediate Release
Contact Andy Matthews
May 3, 2007
(702) 222-0642
Proponents of expanding full-day kindergarten in Nevada threaten to divert limited education funds to programs that studies indicate produce little or no lasting benefit to students, Joe Enge, education policy analyst at the Nevada Policy Research Institute, told legislators Thursday.
All [...]
Will the interests of the many finally trump those of the few?
Nevada currently finds itself in a bizarre situation in which both everyone and no one are simultaneously in charge of the state’s public K-12 education system.
Senate Bill 540 was heard by the upper chamber’s Committee on Finance on the [...]
The semblance of accountability that we have in Nevada with the proficiency exams to graduate high school in Nevada is under assault with Senate Bill 312. The bill introduced by Senator Horsford with Senator Titus speaking in support will provide “alternatives” for students to get out of passing some proficiency [...]
Up-and-coming group making major progress
The Asian American Leadership Council of Nevada held its first policy summit in Carson City on Friday, April 20, and the event, which was designed to help the organization take its first step toward its goal of joining the mainstream American political process, was a great [...]
Senator Dina Titus showed her frustration Thursday afternoon in the Senate Finance Committee over an insignificant concession to balance the budget. The Secretary of State’s Office professionally responded to the governor’s request to adjust down their budget in light of the anticipated $137 million shortfall.
The minor Participatory Democracy Committee [...]
You either like or dislike Ann Coulter. Some excerpts from Ann’s latest column titled LET’S MAKE AMERICA A ‘SAD-FREE ZONE’! include:
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the [...]
