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Creating Partnerships
Opinion -"We have lost our focus on our core business of educating children," and one way to get that focus back is to outsource things we don't do well, maintains James Williams, former superintendent of the public school system in Dayton, Ohio. -
Vouchers Improve Academic Outcomes
Opinion -Since supporters of parental choice in education hold the moral high ground in the education reform debate, opponents have consistently attempted to shift the debate to secondary issues, such as cost and whether choice produces better outcomes. -
Shooting the Messenger
Opinion -When Judge Kenneth Starr agreed to become Special Prosecutor, he little suspected that his own professional integrity would be targeted for destruction in order to discredit the findings of his investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the -
Magnet Schools Take Best Students
Opinion -While public school advocates demand that voucher schools take all students who apply so they cannot "skim the cream," the same advocates of equal opportunity do not make the same demands on public magnet schools, which have highly selective enrollment -
Keyes Would Abolish Dept. of Education
Opinion -In a January 11 speech to the Professional Educators of Iowa, a group of teachers and school administrators who oppose mandatory teacher membership in unions, Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes called for the abolition of the 21-year-old U.S. -
Who Picked Gore?
Opinion -A recent nationwide survey of teachers by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution revealed Texas Governor George W. Bush as their first choice for the next President of the United States, with almost as many undecided. -
TesseracT Assures Parents: Schools Will Stay Open
Opinion -With its stock delisted from Nasdaq, two of its top officers resigned, one-quarter of its central office staff laid off, and three of its schools outside of Arizona closed, the TesseracT Group, Inc. -
Administrators Wrong on Choice
Opinion -Parents who took advantage of Wisconsin's public school choice program were not driven by convenience, but were seeking a better education for their children, according to a new study from Milwaukee's Public Policy Forum, a private, nonprofit public -
Forests burn while Clinton-Gore administration fiddles
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The Latest Storm of Hyperbole
Opinion -A mere 20 years ago, climatologists were the offensive guards of the weather world--the dutiful servants whom nobody noticed unless they got flagged for holding, moving before the snap, or popping the line judge with a right hook. -
Inkster Gets the Message
Opinion -As Detroit Free Press reporters Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki and Sheryl James noted recently, no one took it seriously a few years ago when the Mackinac Center for Public Policy proposed the idea of privatizing public school districts. -
School Reform @ the Speed of Thought
Opinion -In a move that melded together two fast-growing developments--market-based school reform and the Internet--The Heartland Institute in February took an important step towards expanding and accelerating its outreach and marketing efforts by initiating -
Troubled Districts Face Takeover . . . By Private Firms
Opinion -While it's relatively easy for state policy makers to identify a failing school district and then take it over, legislators around the country are beginning to realize it's another matter entirely to turn the performance of that district around. -
04/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Connecticut * Florida * Georgia * Indiana * Kansas * Kentucky Maryland * Michigan * Missouri * New Hampshire * New Jersey * New Mexico New York * Pennsylvania * South Carolina * South Dakota * Utah Vermont * Virginia * -
Another row to hoe
Opinion -Hundreds of studies each year find that most plants produce more fruit, seem more resistant to environmental stresses, and use water more efficiently in a world of higher atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). -
Competition Necessary for Sustainable School Reform
Opinion -The estimated $360 billion U.S. K-12 education market makes up almost 10 percent of GDP, the second largest sector after health care. -
Eight positive environmental trends
Opinion -If present global demographic trends continue, the world population is likely to top out at 7.5 billion people in 2040 and begin to decline. Global life expectancy rose from an average of 46 years in 1950 to over 64 years today. -
Environment issues: Where the candidates stand
Opinion -While the leading Presidential candidates haven’t said a great deal about their positions on such key environment issues as global warming and private property protections, the early primaries and caucuses have forced them to tip their hands at least a -
EPA Web site shut down
Opinion -Late on the night of Wednesday, February 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shut down its public Web site. -
McCain Takes On Teacher Unions
Opinion -In a major education speech in Spartanburg, South Carolina on February 10, Republican presidential candidate John McCain renewed his call for a massive national voucher experiment, and then delivered a stinging attack against the teacher unions and -
Montreal delegates approve biosafety protocol language
Opinion -At the recent U.N.-sponsored biotechnology meeting in Montreal, delegates from 130 countries approved language for a “biosafety protocol” that would allow countries to stop or restrict imports of genetically modified agricultural products. -
Parents Can’t Get Enough of Vouchers
Opinion -Sophisticated statistical techniques aren't needed to prove that parents of Cleveland voucher students are overwhelmingly satisfied with their children's new schools. -
Scholarship Fund Gives Teachers a Voice
Opinion -When the Children's Scholarship Fund offered half-cost tuition vouchers for children in low-income families to go to private schools, it provided megaphone amplification to the voices of over one million parents and children around the country who were -
Subsidizing Disaster
Opinion -The Clinton administration, hard at work to avert the horrors of global warming and urban sprawl, also has been busy passing out disaster relief money like it was campaign literature.
