Opinion
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School Boards, Teacher Unions Share Anti-Voucher Agenda
Opinion -Over 9,000 delegates representing some 95,000 local school board members attended the National School Boards Association conference in Orlando on April 1-4. Just 14 of them showed up for the Federal Lobbying Update session. -
School Voucher Politics Heating Up in Michigan
Opinion -A school voucher initiative on the November 2000 ballot in Michigan has attracted opposition from the teacher unions and other anti-voucher groups, as was expected, but the measure also has provoked a surprisingly high level of heated friction among -
06/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * California * Kentucky * Maine * Massachusetts * Michigan Nebraska * New York * Pennsylvania * Utah * Virginia * Washington ARIZONA All Teachers Fingerprinted Arizona Governor Jane Hull signed a bill on April 10 that requires all -
SALT to Sponsor Conference on Education Technology
Opinion -The Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT®), in cooperation with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), is offering Education Technology 2000 on July 24-26, 2000 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, -
The Trouble with Ozone
Opinion -O’er the earth there comes a bloom; Sunny light for sullen gloom; Warm perfume for vapour cold-- I smell the rose above the mould! --Thomas Hood, Farewell, Life Sometimes, quality trumps quantity. -
American Hubris and Mongolian Cold
Opinion -Sometimes it is embarrassing how self-absorbed the power elites in the United States can be. Now is one of those times. -
Science panel affirms safety of biotech foods
Opinion -There is no “evidence suggesting that foods on the market today are unsafe to eat as a result of genetic modification,” concluded a report released by the National Academy of Sciences on April 5, 2000. -
Rational environmental arguments lost on many voters
Opinion -We are sure most of you who read these pages are regularly baffled by how poorly rational arguments on environmental issues fare in the public forum. -
Chamber of horrors
Opinion -The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held its Environmental Summit 2000 on April 7 in Washington, DC. -
Vouchers Motivate Florida Educators
Opinion -Despite the cloud hung over it by litigation, Florida's fledgling A-Plus program already is yielding a mountain of evidence that vouchers--far from harming public schools, as critics claim--have an uplifting effect on low-performing public schools. -
WebED Aims to Revolutionize Teacher Development
Opinion -WebED, Inc., an online education company, provides K-12 educators, administrators, and school personnel with the opportunity to earn professional development credit through Internet-based courses. -
A Recipe for Making Up The Law
Opinion -Do U.S. Supreme Court Justices always think logically? Not according to school choice opponents who challenged Illinois' 1999 education tax credit law on behalf of Barbara B. Toney and others. -
Congress Stiffs School Boards on Special Ed
Opinion -At a recent National Governors' Association meeting at the White House, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge called on President Clinton to increase his administration's efforts to help the nation's special-needs children. -
Court: EPA may regulate water quality on navigable rivers
Opinion -The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has ruled that the Clean Water Act of 1972 gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to set water-quality standards for every navigable river in America. -
EPA rule latest threat to farms and forests
Opinion -Farmers and foresters across the country are facing the biggest threat to their existence since the "dust bowl" of the 1930s laid waste to hundreds of thousands of acres of prime farmland. -
For the birds
Opinion -Most people think of the Industrial Revolution as a turning point in human efficiency. But it is also an important milestone in natural efficiency. -
Homeschoolers Want State NAEP Ended
Opinion -Arguing that the National Assessment of Educational Progress's reporting of student achievement by state is leading to a national curriculum, the Home School Legal Defense Association is organizing a coalition that would seek to end the federal -
Judicial update: How environment issues are faring in the courts
Opinion -Public Lands Council v. Babbitt The U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments challenging regulations, proposed in 1995 by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and set to go into effect this spring, alleged to violate the Taylor Grazing Act. -
Manhattan, Harvard Sponsor School Choice Debate
Opinion -On March 9-10, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) jointly sponsored a "Conference on Charter Schools, Vouchers, and Public Education" at the Taubman Center in the -
NAEP Becoming an Offer States Can’t Refuse
Opinion -WASHINGTON--Proponents of limited government long have warned that the advent of national testing of schoolchildren would result in a national curriculum dictated by the federal government and a corresponding loss of state sovereignty. -
Recovering from a School Crisis
Opinion -Planning ideas developed in handling the psychological aftermath of two devastating earthquakes in Turkey last year have become part of a new Web-based crisis manager designed specifically for schools to handle crisis situations: acts of violence, -
Religion and the Environment: Natural bedfellows
Opinion -I think the sentiment guiding [left-wing environmentalists] is that “nature knows best.” It is as though the only unnatural thing on the planet is man--or man’s mind. We just see this very differently. -
The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship
Opinion -The past millennium brought unprecedented improvements in human health, nutrition, and life expectancy, especially among those most blessed by political and economic liberty and advances in science and technology. -
The Environmentalists of Summer
Opinion -With baseball season in full swing, it’s good to remember that in science, nature bats last. Spin all the theories you like, throw curves at the media to draw attention (i.e.
