Opinion
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Detroit’s Soaring Graduation Rate Questioned
Opinion -According to figures submitted to Michigan's state Department of Education by Detroit Public Schools officials, Interim Superintendent David Adamany has worked a major miracle during his brief tenure as head of the city's 167,000-student system. -
Heritage Foundation offers timely advice to political candidates
Opinion -The Washington, DC-based Heritage Foundation has recently released its Issues 2000 — The Candidate’s Briefing Book, a massive tome offering careful analysis of more than a dozen key public policy issues facing candidates in the November election. -
Destination Milwaukee: Making the Pilgrimage
Opinion -In the not-so-distant past, Schlitz claimed it was the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Today, it's not the beer but school choice that has made Milwaukee famous again. -
SRN Just the Facts: Homeschooling
Opinion -Only 3 percent of the nation's 53 million schoolchildren are taught at home, compared to almost 90 percent who are educated in public schools. Yet homeschoolers won the top three places in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on June 1. -
Finding a School
Opinion -Looking up a school in the phone book has always been a frustrating task. The school could be listed in the white pages under its actual name, or under the name of the school district, the city, or the county, or under "Government Agencies. -
Better green than red
Opinion -In literally hundreds of experiments conducted around the world, the major food crops of China have been shown to produce substantial improvements in yield and water use efficiency thanks to elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). -
Forest Service releases impact statement for roadless ban
Opinion -The U.S. Forest Service released on May 9 its proposed Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) regarding the Clinton-Gore administration’s plan to ban road construction on up to 60 million acres of National Forests. -
Summer Suboptimum
Opinion -Like moths to flame, a few climate scientists and many enviropoliticos are irresistibly drawn to pronouncements of record high temperatures. -
07/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California * Connecticut * Hawaii * Illinois * Massachusetts Mississippi * Missouri * New Jersey * North Dakota * Ohio * South Carolina CALIFORNIA Tax Break Could Hurt Private Schools Democrat Governor Gray Davis' proposal to exempt -
ALEC: Different Approach Needed for Better Schools
Opinion -"If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting." Robert L. -
Let us use some common sense here
Opinion -Summary: In this speech by the Hon. Cliff Stearns (R-Florida, 6th District) addressing the House of Representatives states that we should preserve freedom and not follow the dictates of the Earth First! -
MTBE ban proposed in Michigan
Opinion -The Michigan legislature has taken up a bill that would ban the water-polluting gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). Introduced by Rep. -
New voice on the environmental left
Opinion -A potentially powerful news organization has been launched to spread the message of the left-wing environmental movement. Verde Media has been established, according to founder and chairman, Peek Garlington III, to be “. . . -
Playing the numbers with climate model accuracy
Opinion -Those who proudly claim their climate models duplicate reality, provided [insert your favorite caveat here], have been irritated by one particularly nasty thorn. (And no, we’re not talking about Environment & Climate News. -
Private conservation: An environmental success story
Opinion -Expressing his support for an Interior Department proposal to create three new National Monuments and expand a fourth monument in the West, President Clinton late last year proclaimed, "giving these lands National Monument status would ensure they will -
Sea-ing nothing new under the sun
Opinion -One little-known mystery of global warming is an event that took place some 24 years ago. -
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.
