• Startling Conclusions of Rand Study
• It’s Not About the Statistics & Reports?
Startling Conclusions of Rand Study
Chuck Muth and Jim Clark have made reference to the 2006 Rand study refuting the benefits of All-Day K. Not only does the Rand study School Readiness, Full-Day Kindergarten, and Student Achievement: An Empirical Investigation confirms the benefits of All-Day K […]

Clark County School District released Monday their “study results” for All-Day K. This highly regarded bastion of academic analysis surprised no one by releasing figures the same day as the start of the 2007 Legislative Session that support their very political and self-serving contention. I don’t think they could have been more transparently biased and […]

• Is Speaker Buckley Sexist?
• Titus & I Agree
• Las Vegas KVBC Airs Interview
• What a Deal
Is Buckley Sexist?
Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley said after being made speaker of the Assembly in a local interview to News Carson City that, “Women legislators do tend to focus more on education, healthcare, day to day issues because that’s reflective of their day to […]

• Let the Games Begin
• 2007 Player List
• Empowerment AND All-Day K?
• Major Victory in Utah
Let the Games Begin
Nevada’s political version of rugby starts today in Carson City, the day after Super Bowl Sunday. Without helmets, padding, or referees to call penalties (The NFL has it easy), our 63 legislators will be meeting at least 120 days for the […]

Kudos to Gibbons for taking an immediate stand
Jim Clark
special to the Bonanza
January 28, 2007
Well done, Governor Gibbons! Despite the lobbying of the Association of Nevada School Superintendents, the election season bleating of your opponent Dina Titus and the post election posturing of the Assembly Democrat leadership, you didn’t rise to the bait and call for […]

Another Jim (Jim Hukari) is facts averse and on the opposite end of the spectrum. My former school board opponent penned a letter to the editor with more spin than the Virginia Reel (a colonial dance).
The new strategy is to say opponents of all-day K simply need to visit the classes to become believers. […]

All-Day Kindergarten Overview
Definitive Studies
• U.S Department of Ed. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 (ECLS-K) 22,000 children at K entry, only data set of its kind
• Goldwater Institute’s Assessing Proposals for Preschool & Kindergartners: Essential Information for Parents, Taxpayers, & Policy Makers
• Kansas Report, by Dr. Sherrill Martinez and Lue Ann Snider with the Planning and […]

Young children should be kept out of government schools
In his recent letter to you (Kindergarten opponents ignoring the evidence) Eugene Paslov got it exactly backwards. There is plenty of evidence in favor of children spending as few of their years in government schools as possible. I’ll cite just a few.
In 1994 the Organization for Economic […]

Three ideas for Carson schools: a syllabus; merit pay; parental choice

In April 2005, I wrote an Appeal article on Carson High’s failure to teach most of its students pre-Civil War American history, a practice I had verified with a teacher, students and a school board member who had discussed it with administrators.

The district launched a misinformation campaign to cover up its practice. Making the problem public had benefits, though, because Carson High last year began to teach more early American history so it could claim it was doing so all along. While that’s false, at least the curriculum was slightly improved because we raised the issue.

Bob Chitester, producer of the PBS series Free to Choose, wrote me about Monday being Milton Friedman Day. Our local Reno PBS station KNPB/Channel 5 will air The Power of Choice at 10:00 pm Monday evening. Bob’s personal reflections about Milton can be read by clicking here.
Milton Friedman made a major impact on me and […]

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