EdWatch Nevada by Joe Enge
Joe Enge serves as an education analyst with NPRI, as chairman of EdWatch Nevada, and as a member of the Carson City School Board. Author of two world history textbooks, columnist for Liberty Watch Magazine, Joe was a high school teacher in Nevada from 1988 to 2006 and a Fulbright teacher to the former Soviet Union. He was named a Madison Fellow in 2005.
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- Educational feudalism
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- Everyone suffers when educrats don’t do their homework
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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 price. The students pay in the form […]
May
5
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 K-12 budget from these spending […]
May
3
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 “Full-Day Kindergarten in Nevada: Learning to Learn” […]
May
3
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 too often, Enge said, the rhetoric from those […]