Opinion
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The global stupidstorm
Opinion -Planetary surface temperature may have increased slightly in the last 100 years (some 0. -
Spring offensive, Summer campaign
Opinion -It’s an election year. -
EPA flayed over sludge policy, bullying of citizens
Opinion -Angered by revelations that a top EPA official used death threats to silence agency critics, several members of the House Science Committee have demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency apologize for what one lawmaker called "indefensible and -
Sustainable silliness
Opinion -Controversy over the sustainability of modern civilization has been with us since long before our current modern civilization, and it has grown steadily during the Clinton-Gore administration’s reign. -
Scientists: Biotech foods can save Third-World children
Opinion -At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in late February in Washington, DC, scientists from around the globe considered how to provide enough food for the world’s people. -
Charitable trusts influence Clinton-Gore environment policy
Opinion -In a mid-February hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health of the House Resources Committee, witness after witness testified as to how their local communities have been adversely affected by environmental initiatives funded by -
New wetlands rules challenged in court
Opinion -New rules issued by the Army Corps of Engineers require permits for converting as little as one-half acre of wetland to residential or commercial use, prompting a call for Congress to act and a lawsuit filed by the National Association of Home Builders -
The Demonization of Parochial Schools
Opinion -In his 1979 book, Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States, David Nasaw recounts how the textbooks used in the common schools in the mid-1800s were "viciously anti-Irish and anti-Catholic. -
Blacks Leaders on a Mission for Parent Power
Opinion -More than 300 African-Americans from 26 states gathered in Milwaukee recently for an annual conference that is building a national movement for school choice and outlining reforms necessary to enhance educational options for low-income minority -
Using Witte against Vouchers
Opinion -The Web site of the National Education Association features an April 1997 report called "The School Voucher Experiment in Milwaukee: Success or Failure?" The report holds up John F. -
Lifelong Learning Plan Hijacked for Clinton Day Care
Opinion -Private-sector child care providers fear being put out of business by the dramatic growth of 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a Department of Education program that has grown far beyond its original intent of boosting lifelong learning -
New Laws Help English Learners
Opinion -In the wake of court rulings upholding Proposition 227--which California voters approved to effectively end most of the state's bilingual education programs--a number of innovative new laws have been passed to further benefit the state's English -
How Are the Children?
Opinion -In Kenya, the response to the traditional Masai greeting of "How are the children?" is "All the children are well. -
What Do Parents Choose?
Opinion -If parents were given the power to choose schools for their children, would they make wise choices? -
How Community Learning Was Morphed into Child Care
Opinion -Providing children with expanded learning opportunities in a safe, drug-free, and supervised environment is a laudable goal . . . but it isn't one of the goals set by the legislation controlling 21st Century Community Learning Centers. -
Delivering on the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity: an interview with Joseph P. Viteritti
Opinion -“School choice is fundamentally an ethical moral issue, an issue of social justice. It is a sense of moral outrage that will eventually change public policy. It's not research; it's not regression analysis. -
Colorado Groups Seek School Choice Options
Opinion -Two new grassroots group of parents and community leaders met at the State Capitol in Denver on March 15 to share ideas on political activism and to show their support for a pilot school choice program they had designed for Colorado. -
A Grass Act
Opinion -With winter snowstorms now a fading memory, it’s time to focus attention on the verdant lawn that is soon to become a source of pride in high-sun months. -
Court decision is victory for chlorine, public health
Opinion -On March 31, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that EPA violated the Safe Drinking Water Act by failing to use the “best available peer-reviewed science” when it tried to institute a “zero -
Disaster on thin ice
Opinion -Sure is nice out! But watch that spring in your step. As the black-and-white of winter is forgotten in a burst of colorful daffodils and tulips, maybe we should be worrying about melting the polar ice cap. In response to Konstantin Ya. -
Earobics Literacy Software Wins Parents’ Choice Award
Opinion -Earlier this year, the Parents' Choice organization awarded its 1999 Parents' Choice "Approved" Award to Earobics Step 2, a software package for teaching early literacy skills. -
EPA’s computer “security” system still a mess
Opinion -Enterprising hackers looking for a way to loot trade secrets, compromise law enforcement procedures, or assist foreign intelligence agencies in carrying out economic espionage used to have it good. All they had to do was raid the U.S. -
Fighting for Control over Children
Opinion -Power Comes First When the income of a business is threatened by the loss of customers to a competitor offering better service at lower cost, a number of responses are possible, from aggressively topping the competitor's offering to simply hoping -
Gore: Private Schools Are Un-American
Opinion -Appearing with children in a recent campaign ad for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Vice President Al Gore said private schools "are fine, but not with money designated for public schools where 90 percent of our American children go.