Opinion
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TAR-2000: The Empire Strikes Back
Opinion -Lawyers are fond of saying, “If you don’t like the law, argue the facts. If you don’t like the facts, argue the law.” At the United Nations, without the scientific facts to back them up, they’ve engaged in a perverse twist of the lawyers’ dictum. -
The ABCs of School Choice
Opinion -The Friedman Foundation has just published a pamphlet called The ABC's of School Choice, which provides a convenient, pocket-sized fact-book on school choice in America today. -
Time to Get Our Priorities Right: Schools Exist to Provide an Education for Kids: an interview with Dick DeVos
Opinion -“The issue isn't really about politics anymore, it's about helping kids who are trapped in failing school districts. We're on the ballot now, and it's no use arguing about whether it's a good time or a bad time. -
AOL Must Now Fight the Tiger It Once Rode
Opinion -In the modern telecommunications and computer industry, no company has worked more aggressively to use the power of government against its business rivals than has America Online. -
The anti-trade greens . . . and how they got that way
Opinion -“What are they doing here?” “What the heck do they want? “Where did they all come from?” “How did they get so well-financed and organized? -
Excerpts from the NAS Report
Opinion -The following passages are quoted, without footnotes, from the executive summary to the National Academy of Sciences April 5 report, Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation. -
Public Rejects Red Tape, Federal Intrusion
Opinion -In a research summary released last December, National Capital Strategies, Inc. -
What Wasn’t Said at the NSBA Conference
Opinion -This year's 60th Annual Meeting of the National School Boards Association, with 9,000 delegates among the total 19,000 attendees, was typical of such organizational meetings. -
Teacher Unions Defeat Mandate Reimbursement Plan
Opinion -As Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge discovered to his chagrin last June, when state legislators failed to support his voucher proposal, Catholics may number in the millions and make up 30 percent of the state's population, but the lobbying clout of the -
Boston biotech meeting attracts supporters, protestors
Opinion -Bio2000, a week-long conference for the international biotechnology industry, ended March 31 after setting attendance records for both conferees and protestors. Nearly 8,000 industry representatives attended the Boston convention. -
Congress debates CAFE moratorium again
Opinion -It has become an annual rite of summer. Each year since 1995, Congress has voted to extend a one-year moratorium on expenditures to change car and truck fuel economy standards, effectively freezing the standards at 27. -
Court rejects EPA chloroform rule
Opinion -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on March 31 that the U.S. -
Coalition of biotech companies launches educational campaign
Opinion -The biotechnology industry has begun a three-year, $50 million program to educate consumers about the safety and benefits of bioengineered foods. -
Environmental Education: Ripe for Reform
Opinion -It’s time to separate education and advocacy. We don’t mean discouraging environmentalists or business representatives from speaking in the classroom. -
Quick action may have stalled ecoterrorists
Opinion -When Congressman George Radanovich (R-California) received an email urging Earth Liberation Front (ELF) members to wage “militant demonstrations targeting U.S. -
Where has all the carbon gone?
Opinion -With or without a Kyoto Protocol, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions no doubt will continue to rise. -
U.S. health report quells fears
Opinion -The long-awaited results of the U.S. National Assessment of Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change are beginning to see the light of day. -
Enviro groups sued for false advertising
Opinion -On April 17, Western Fuels Association Inc. filed suit in Wyoming federal district court against six anti-coal environmentalist groups, alleging the groups’ “Global warming -- how will it end? -
Bilingual Education Being Sidelined
Opinion -After 30 years and over $4 billion spent on federal bilingual education programs, the evidence has become overwhelming: Bilingual education doesn't work, and in fact does a terrible disservice to Hispanic and other language-minority young people in our -
Low Literacy = High Waste in Education
Opinion -In the call for schools to be held accountable for results, one measure trumps all others: If public schools simply taught all children to read and write, they would pass any accountability test with flying colors. -
Recovering from a Natural Disaster
Opinion -On August 17 last year, a devastating earthquake in Turkey killed nearly 18,000 people. -
Dem Education Plan: Streamlining and Strings
Opinion -Despite talk of reform and calls for accountability as the U.S. -
Challenge to Illinois Tax Credit Dismissed
Opinion -On April 21, Judge Thomas Appleton of the Sangamon County Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Illinois Education Association and various other organizations that claimed a 1999 tax credit law violated four provisions of the Illinois -
Judge Rules Florida Vouchers Can Continue
Opinion -The same judge who in March had ruled that Florida's A+ Plan was unconstitutional in April rejected a request from the teacher unions to close the program until the Court of Appeals rules this summer.
