Opinion
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From New York to California, Americans Support Vouchers
Opinion -According to University of Rochester economist Eric Hanushek, vouchers would "allow parents to vote on performance by choosing schools. -
New Standards Proposed for Teacher Preparation
Opinion -WASHINGTON -- The proponents of a national system of preparing and licensing teachers for America's K-12 classrooms spared no hyperbole in a recent news conference here, unveiling revised National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) -
The Lemon Test
Opinion -In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court established a three-pronged test to determine whether a law violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bars any law "respecting an establishment of religion." 1. -
School Choice Moves Forward in Indiana
Opinion -NEW HARMONY, IN--The movement to achieve increased choice in education for Indiana parents took a significant step forward in late May, when more than 150 parents, state and community leaders, and school choice activists gathered at a symposium in New -
Making more monuments
Opinion -President Clinton is in the midst of a major push to name national monuments during his final year in office. -
EPA tries to hogtie Wyoming
Opinion -We hear from EPA’s “State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kit” that Wyoming’s temperatures could rise by 11°F in winter over the next 100 years, with devastating consequences. -
Voucher Threat Lifts Florida Schools
Opinion -The sharp improvement in student achievement at Florida's 78 failing public schools has shattered claims that competition does not work in education, and that private school vouchers will hurt public schools and the students "left behind" in them. -
Teacher Certification: Guarantee or Joke?
Opinion -"[T]eacher certification procedures are a joke! . . . [They] don’t distinguish between those who can and those who cannot teach. They’re a series of bureaucratic routines, which some say serve only to keep talented people out of teaching. -
School Choice Arguments in Court
Opinion -The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments on the Cleveland school choice program in Cincinnati on June 20. -
Let’s Do What’s Best for the Child: an interview with J.C. Watts Jr.
Opinion -“We have to come to the table minus our egos and minus these ideological frames of mind that we get into and say, ‘Let's do what's best for the child. -
High (latitude) anxiety
Opinion -For the second time in the past four years, Polish climatologist Rajmund Przybylak has a put a chill on climate model projections of global warming temperature patterns. -
Boys Camp jeopardized by new monument
Opinion -“Our right to have a voice and take part in the decision making process is being completely circumvented,” despaired Rocky Leitzell, executive director of the R.M. -
Where’s the science in environmental science?
Opinion -Environmental science is a growth industry everywhere . . . and nowhere more than in America’s schools. -
National Assessment of Climate Change released
Opinion -America's airwaves and newsrooms were abuzz in mid-June with dire warnings of an imminent global warming apocalypse. Average U.S. temperatures "will probably rise 5-10 degrees F. -
Ensuring the Success of Your School Crisis Plan
Opinion -The Heartland Institute is pleased to welcome as a regular School Reform News columnist Robert Macy, director of community services for the Trauma Center in Boston, Massachusetts. -
08/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California * District of Columbia * Georgia * Illinois * Kansas Louisiana * Maryland * Massachusetts * New Jersey * Pennsylvania Texas * Utah * Washington * Wyoming CALIFORNIA Ousting Union Brings $525 Raise Teachers in the small -
Anti-Voucher Predictions Off the Mark
Opinion -"This bill sends out the message, 'the public schools have failed and nothing can fix them,'" said Jack Lieberman, president of the American Jewish Congress Southeast Region, one of the organizations that has sued to halt Florida’s voucher program. -
Apocalypse Arizona?
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency has released its “State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kit”--which its cover calls a “one-stop shop . . . packed with useful materials” to help you “reach out on climate change. -
Brownfields can turn companies green
Opinion -Scores of articles, conferences, environmentalists, politicians, and pundits have proclaimed that redevelopment of environmentally impaired property validates the notion that environmental enhancement and economic progress are compatible. -
Court OKs Neutral Aid to Religious Schools
Opinion -In its most important ruling on school choice to date, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 handed down a splintered 6-3 ruling in the Mitchell v. -
Gas Prices: High and Going Higher?
Opinion -As early as March, the Department of Energy predicted summer gasoline shortages and soaring prices. -
Land use warming on par with CO2
Opinion -We humans alter our climate. That has been true since we cleared areas of forest or grasslands to grow crops or build shelter. -
Lie Often. It Works
Opinion -Why are falsehoods about voucher programs re-issued long after they have been shown to be inaccurate and misleading? -
Man vs. Milky Way revisited
Opinion -The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient.
