Opinion
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FunBrain.com: A Smart Place to Play
Opinion -Learning is a lot more fun when a funky cartoon gorilla coaches you in grammar, or when you can score home runs for correctly solving a math problem. That’s the premise behind FunBrain. -
Helping Teachers Raise Student Achievement: an interview with William L. Sanders
Opinion -When a sports player wants to work on improving his or her game, it's not very productive to spend time simply looking at the scores of recent games. -
How I Spent My Summer Vacation…in School
Opinion -Chicago's no-nonsense approach to social promotion has been taken up by many other cities and school districts across the nation. -
Is Remedial Ed Necessary?
Opinion -Offering remedial education courses in colleges and universities to high school graduates who are under-prepared for college-level work is a serious error, according to the former interim president of the City University of New York's Bernard M. -
Johnson’s Voucher Vision
Opinion -New Mexico doesn't have a voucher program yet, but the state already has three important lessons for school choice advocates--thanks to the leadership of Republican Governor Gary Johnson. -
More Voucher Myths Dispelled
Opinion -Florida Governor Jeb Bush was in Washington, DC, on September 23 to testify before a U.S. House panel about his opportunity scholarship program. -
Contracting Out for School Support Services
Opinion -Like every individual and organization on the planet, public schools are dogged by the most fundamental proposition of economics: Resources are scarce. -
How U.S. Taxpayers Subsidize Teacher Unions
Opinion -American taxpayers are unknowingly providing substantial subsidies to the nation's largest teacher unions through items incorporated into collective bargaining agreements with local school district officials, according to Myron Lieberman, chairman of -
The Battle for Freedom Starts with Our Land: an Exclusive Interview with Helen Chenoweth
Opinion -The Honorable Helen Chenoweth is a third-term Congressman representing Idaho’s First Congressional District. -
10/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Termites Don’t Pass Gas The University of Iowa has discovered that, despite a high-fiber diet--such as your home--termites do not pass methane gas, as do cattle, which also have a high-fiber diet. -
The Internet Begins with Coal
Opinion -Every measure of the Internet shows explosive growth in numbers of users, number of Web sites, bandwith, and the billions of dollars in e-commerce. -
The Country Reacts to Cleveland Ruling
Opinion -"Finally, I have a chance to give my children hope of succeeding in the school system and they try to take it away. -
Ripple Effect Improves Public Schools
Opinion -A new research report from the Center for Education Reform provides solid evidence to show that--as well as improving education for those students who attend charter schools--charter schools improve education for students who remain in traditional -
Vouchers Siphon Funds into Cleveland Public Schools
Opinion -Contrary to the claims of teacher union officials, who warn that vouchers take money away from public schools, a 1997 study demonstrated that the Cleveland Public Schools received a net surplus of $118,473 because of the city's voucher program. -
What Mother Never Told You about Global Warming
Opinion -When the popular press reports on “global warming,” there are a number of facts they avoid. -
How Private Conservation Saved the Peregrine Falcon
Opinion -On August 20 and 21, The Peregrine Fund, a private conservation organization, hosted a gala event in Boise, Idaho, to celebrate the recovery and restoration of the once-endangered Peregrine Falcon throughout its range in North America. -
Striving Against What?
Opinion -According to the Educational Testing Service, these are some of the factors that reduce a student's expected SAT score: Family Student's parents have relatively low educational attainment, family has lower income, and home has fewer books and -
The Book of Knowledge
Opinion -Earlier this year, Merrill Lynch & Co. published The Book of Knowledge, a 193-page in-depth report on the $740 billion education and training market in the United States, updating the firm's first report on the industry, produced four years ago. -
Bush Embraces Child-Centered Education Funding
Opinion -Criticized for being too vague on issues, Republican presidential front_runner George W. Bush answered just before Labor Day by endorsing the concept that federal tax dollars should follow children from failing schools to schools of choice. -
Furor Over Cleveland Voucher Ruling
Opinion -Bowing to the tidal wave of negative public reaction generated by his decision to deny scholarship funds to almost 4,000 children from poor families in Cleveland on the day before school started, U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. -
In-House Evaluation = High Ratings
Opinion -While Reading Recovery® can't be faulted for promoting its success, independent researchers point out that RR's assessment of its success is the result of in-house evaluations. -
Mayor Goldsmith Hails Tuition Scholarships
Opinion -Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith applauded the plans of the Educational CHOICE Charitable Trust to target up to $250,000 in new tuition scholarships to students residing in the inner-city Citizen's King Park neighborhood. -
Even Judges Get Confused
Opinion -In penning the Arizona Supreme Court's majority decision in Kotterman v. Killian earlier this year, upholding the constitutionality of tax credits for education scholarship donations, Chief Justice Thomas A. -
Why the U.S. Fails at Teaching Math
Opinion -The work of Harold Stevenson and coworkers and the Third International Math and Science Study results both show that Asian children learn mathematics better than U.S. children do. What accounts for this?
