Opinion
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Clegg Named Entrepreneur of the Year
Opinion -Each year the Association of Education Practitioners and Providers presents its Entrepreneur of the Year Award to an individual who goes “above and beyond” to demonstrate the benefits of entrepreneurship in education. -
‘Father’ of global warming partially recants
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Private School Students Score Well on NAEP
Opinion -The tests conducted on 9-, 13- and 17-year-old students for the National Assessment of Educational Progress have included private school students since 1977. -
Ralph Cavanagh, take a bow
Opinion -The only I time I met Ralph Cavanagh was early in 1992, when I debated him in San Diego, California at a very large utility conference on renewable energy technologies. He and I were on a panel, along with Denis Hayes of Earth Day fame. -
Schools Open Despite Code Violations
Opinion -Florida State Education Commissioner Tom Gallagher, who threatened to delay the opening of dozens of Miami-Dade public schools that failed to fix fire and safety code violations, backed down when faced with the reality of having to do so. -
The National Biological Service and Weasels
Opinion -“The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) was a charter member of endangered species lists for North America long before the passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973,” wrote Dean Biggins and Jerry Godbey for the National Biological Service’s 1995 -
Union Bars Editor from Assembly
Opinion -Despite two appeals, the Nation Education Association refused to issue Press Credentials to School Reform News Managing Editor George Clowes so he could report on the teacher union's annual Representative Assembly in Chicago on July 3-6. -
Colorado Court Kills Bilingual Initiative
Opinion -The Colorado Supreme Court on July 12 unanimously rejected a pending ballot initiative which, if approved, would have virtually eliminated that state's bilingual education programs. -
Arizona Bilingual Reform Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot
Opinion -Arizona bilingual education reform leaders on June 28 officially filed petitions bearing the signatures required to qualify their "English for the Children" initiative for the November 7 ballot. -
They’re Running the Children Through Public Schools like Cattle: an interview with Tim Draper
Opinion -With vouchers, schools are accountable to the people who matter the most: They're accountable to parents. -
Kids First! Yes! Attracts Endorsements
Opinion -Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus In July, Michigan Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus threw his support behind the Kids First! Yes! initiative, saying it was a way to improve all Michigan schools. -
Alternative Route Boosts NJ Teacher Quality
Opinion -Many alternative certification programs have been initiated over the years in response to teacher shortages present and projected. -
Dedicated to Coverdell, GOP Platform Promotes School Choice
Opinion -The Republican Party platform, approved at the start of the party's convention in Philadelphia, was dedicated at that time to the memory of the late Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia, who had been the principal congressional advocate of education -
Ten tips to help our planet . . . revisited
Opinion -On the final page of the calendar that Environmental Defense (formerly known as the Environmental Defense Fund) sends to millions of potential contributors, you’ll find a list of ten things you can do to protect the environment. -
Warming up to carbon dioxide
Opinion -A recent cascade of government reports portends biospheric doom and gloom once increased temperatures and higher carbon dioxide (CO2) levels establish themselves. -
Ocean depth and salinity can counter warming
Opinion -Gee, predicting the climate 100 years from now might be trickier than we thought. That would be an honest assessment of 25 years of trying to mathematically model how increasing greenhouse gases will affect our planet by the year 2100. -
National Assessment on Climate Change makes a poor first impression
Opinion -After much fanfare, the U.S. -
Blackouts loom while politicians dither
Opinion -Power blackouts plagued homeowners from Detroit to the Silicon Valley to the Pacific Northwest in mid-June, pre-saging what many experts believe could be the worst interruptions to electric service in years. -
EPA official pleads guilty in fraud case
Opinion -An EPA attorney accused of falsifying documents in a hotly disputed wetlands case in Wisconsin pleaded guilty June 27 to contempt of court. Marc M. Radell, 41, faces up to six months in prison and up to $5,000 in fines when he is sentenced in September. -
How Virginia beat EPA
Opinion -Those who would limit the power of the federal government often presume the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is too popular, too large, and too effective at public outreach and media manipulation to attack directly. -
Albert Gore and Straw Men
Opinion -Do you know anyone who argues there is a trade off between our economy and environment? Do you know anyone who believes dirty power plants are inevitable and we should accept them? -
Reality Check Foils Kyoto
Opinion -Remember those industry-sponsored ads about the Kyoto Protocol that said, “It’s not global and it won’t work”? Well, it looks like they “worked”! -
The suburbs are still misunderstood
Opinion -Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York, NY: North Point Press, 2000), 290 pp., $30. -
EPA retreats; media hardly notices
Opinion -Despite devoting thousands of page one headlines and countless feature stories to “soaring gasoline prices” and Clinton-Gore administration claims of price gouging by oil companies, the nation’s print media paid scant attention to
