Lance Izumi – Page 2 – California Globe

Catholic Schools Succeed Where Public Schools Fail. Why?

October 1, 2025 10:38 amOctober 1, 2025 10:55 am

Recently released results on the National Assessment for Educational Progress, administered in most states, showed that Catholic school students scored much higher than students in the public schools. “On the 2024 NAEP eighth-grade reading test, Catholic-school students scored 20 points...

How Did California’s Public Education Go From Best in the US to Worst?

July 9, 2025 2:00 pmJuly 10, 2025 12:29 pm

American teachers and teachers unions have failed children. Teachers unions have become the biggest school bullies, sacrificing school children on the altar of power and control. My parents were teachers throughout the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, into 2000’s. They saw...

San Francisco Schools’ ‘Equity Grading’ Scheme Backfires

June 23, 2025 6:27 amJune 23, 2025 12:04 pm

California recently parents discovered that the San Francisco Unified School District had proposed a “grading for equity” initiative, dumbing down all students to the lowest common denominator, the Globe reported. Rather than lifting struggling students, San Francisco district comrades chose...

Greenberg & Grimes: Wiener as King Ignores Federal Supremacy

June 17, 2025 2:55 amJune 17, 2025 2:49 pm

We watched President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday celebration and military parade in Washington, D.C., and also observed the “No Kings” protests in 2,000 cities across the country all weekend – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Protests in California...

San Francisco School District Parents Betrayed Again

June 1, 2025 10:00 amJune 2, 2025 7:13 am

Last week, California parents discovered that the San Francisco Unified School District had proposed a “grading for equity” initiative, dumbing down all students to the lowest common denominator, The Voice of San Francisco reported. Parental outrage hit peak levels after...

America’s Military, Not America’s Politicians, are the Real Public Servants

May 26, 2025 2:55 amMay 26, 2025 7:10 am

Politicians love to refer to themselves as public servants, despite the outrageous perks and entitlements they vote for themselves, or just take. America’s real public servants are members of the greatest military in the world. And what better time as...

Harvard Now Offers Remedial Math Acknowledging America’s Math Collapse

April 16, 2025 2:55 amApril 16, 2025 2:56 am

There is a lack of foundational algebra skills among American students. According to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, 73 percent of eighth graders nationwide taking the test failed to score at the proficient level. Lance Izumi, senior director...