Opinion
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Vouchers Lift Black Student Scores
Opinion -Just as the nation was absorbing Education Secretary Richard W. -
Who Wants To Be An Entrepreneur? I Do!
Opinion -How To Do It Dennis C. -
Russell Joins Think Tank Board
Opinion -CHICAGO, IL October 25, 2000 – Robert E. Russell, Jr., president of Robert Russell & Associates, Inc., was elected to the Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute at its latest meeting. -
Environment and the 2000 election
Opinion -Ultimately, the importance of environment issues to the 2000 election may not be determined by “environmentalists” or more moderate conservationists—or even Democrats or Republicans. -
Chicago: Hardest hit by high gas prices, doesn’t need RFG
Opinion -The Chicago area, hardest hit by high gasoline prices when EPA forced it to switch to new Tier II reformulated gasoline this summer, should not be required to use oxygenated gasoline because it is in compliance with clean air standards. -
Medical journal defends DDT
Opinion -Two articles in the July 29 issue of The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, make a surprising and passionate case for DDT, the pesticide banned in the Western world in the 1970s. -
Popular termite pesticide withdrawn from U.S. market
Opinion -Dow AgroSciences has reached an agreement with EPA to voluntarily withdraw from the U.S. residential market its chlorpyrifos products, including the popular pesticide Dursban, a treatment for termites. -
A greenhouse pickle
Opinion -Each crisp, savory pickle at your table began its life as a mere cucumber, drawing nourishment from the carbon dioxide that is its lifeblood. How will the cucumber fare as CO2 and temperatures rise? -
News of Arctic warming nothing more than hot air
Opinion -The rhetoric is heating up out there. Item 1. Press Release, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 9, 2000, titled “Arctic temperatures warmest in last four centuries, study says.” Arctic temperatures in the late 20th century . . . -
Warming will torment transportation, British government warns
Opinion -Global warming will wreak havoc with Britain’s transportation systems, according to Anthony Astbury, business manager for the British Meteorological Office, who briefed the country’s Transportation Research Laboratory earlier this summer. -
EPA Must Pay Harassed Mill Owner
Opinion -A federal judge has invoked a rarely used law to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pay damages to a Massachusetts mill owner the agency harassed and pursued an investigation against, despite a lack of evidence. On August 1, U.S. -
Long-anticipated energy crisis: Has it arrived?
Opinion -The last 100 years are often referred to by historians as the “American Century,” due primarily to the country’s rise to world leadership and military dominance. -
Spring is springing earlier
Opinion -Poets, philosophers, and even regular Joes generally see the first blossoms of spring as a much-anticipated sign of renewal. Now it seems certain factors--some natural, some human-induced--are causing Spring to spring earlier. -
Is Greenland really melting?
Opinion -“Greenland is melting! Greenland is melting!” cried Chicken Little in a spate of press stories based on two articles in Science magazine. Apparently, C.L. -
Wildfires, warnings, women, and children
Opinion -“Mom, they’ve ordered us to evacuate. What do you want me to save from the house? -
Proposed wetlands rule assumes guilt until proven innocent
Opinion -The presumption of innocence, a pillar of American jurisprudence since the country's founding, will suffer a severe setback if a proposed EPA wetlands regulation is allowed to stand as written. -
Reporters Assess State Tests
Opinion -New York: Teacher Certification Test New York Times reporter Abby Goodnough recently related her experiences in taking New York State's main certification exam for teachers, who must score at least 220 of a possible 300 to pass. -
Americans Favor Competition to Improve Public Schools
Opinion -When asked whether spending more money or introducing competition would be more effective in improving education, respondents in a large Portrait of America survey left no doubt they viewed competition--allowing parents to choose schools for their -
Parents Don’t Want More Day Care
Opinion -A new Public Agenda survey released in August refutes the notion that parents of very young children are calling for more help with day care from government or from employers. -
Barriers to Teacher-Entrepreneurs
Opinion -Even after creating and running Lane Tutoring Services in Oregon for a number of years, Joshua Hirschstein still thinks of himself primarily as a teacher. He’s only now beginning to recognize he's an entrepreneur, too. -
Warning: Your School Safety Plan May Fail
Opinion -Having a school safety and crisis response plan (SSCRP) in place may not be enough: The plan could be inadequate, or might actually fail upon implementation. How can you know? -
Opinion Poll Update
Opinion -Vouchers Find Overwhelming Support in New York City New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he favors school vouchers to allow parents to choose their child's school. -
Next Big Killer App: Education
Opinion -Earlier this year, Merrill Lynch's Global Growth Group in San Francisco published a 355-page in-depth report titled The Knowledge Web, an analysis of how the Internet is catalyzing change in the $2.2 trillion knowledge enterprise industry. -
Long-Term Educational Progress Modest At Best
Opinion -No one organized a tickertape parade when the latest results from an ongoing assessment of the nation's long-term progress in K-12 education were released on August 24. In fact, the best thing U.S. Education Secretary Richard W.
