Opinion
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A Straight A for Vouchers
Opinion -"When you hear opponents of vouchers say that these programs are not working, ask them how they know," says David Kirkpatrick, senior fellow with the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "Have they been? -
Curbing the Imperial Presidency
Opinion -Amid persistent rumors that the Clinton-Gore administration plans to declare millions of acres of land in the “four corners” area of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico off-limits to most human activity by naming the area a National Monument, -
Forest Service Stiffs Rural Schools
Opinion -“Every chance he gets, the President talks about improving education in America,” Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) said. “With this veto threat, we can only assume that his support of education does not apply to rural communities. -
How Other Countries Subsidize Private Schools
Opinion -A recent international study of government subsidies to religious and other private schools in 22 industrialized countries holds few lessons for policymakers here in the United States because of constitutional considerations and important differences -
Making Title I Portable
Opinion -Earlier this year, at a conference hosted by the Manhattan Institute and the Progressive Policy Institute, Diane Ravitch, a senior fellow with both, laid out her proposal for making Title I into a "portable entitlement. -
No Appeal in $8 Billion Verdict
Opinion -The junk science-fueled, ready-fire-aim proclivity of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just cost the shareholders of pharmaceutical manufacturer American Home Products $8 billion. -
Questionable EPA Program Feeds the Hands That Bite it
Opinion -Representative David McIntosh (R-Indiana) and Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) are probing the Environmental Protection Agency’s grantmaking in its Transportation Partners Program (TPP)--a program whose very existence appears to be unauthorized. -
Strivers Would Get Extra Credit on SAT Scores
Opinion -Via a Wall Street Journal story of August 31, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, New Jersey, the public an advance peek at a research initiative called Strivers, which could give underprivileged takers of the Scholastic Aptitude Test -
The Song of Microsoft: Why the Producers of the World Must Come to the Defense of Microsoft
Opinion -We are now in the phony war phase of the government's antitrust trial against Microsoft. On August 10, 1999, the first of a series of closing arguments was made by Microsoft and the government's legal team. -
We’re Talking about the Future Here: an interview with Harold W. Stevenson
Opinion -If "mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences," as English scientist Roger Bacon put it in 1267, then many of today's public school students are being given an ill-fitting key to unlock the gate of the sciences. -
International Control Coming to You?
Opinion -If you live, work, or have plans to develop property in or near any of the areas listed below, you might be subject to the decisions of international regulators, just as Crown Butte Mines was when it tried to develop a mine near Yellowstone National -
Policy analysts address environment ‘hot topics’ at Lexington conference
Opinion -The Lexington Institute’s July 20 Capitol Hill conference featured speakers addressing a wide range of EPA-related issues. -
Knollenberg Fights Implementation of Unratified Global Warming Treaty
Opinion -“A slap in the face of the Senate,” is how Representative Joe Knollenberg (R-Michigan) characterized the Clinton-Gore administration’s refusal to submit the Kyoto Protocol on global warming to the Senate for ratification. -
Parental Freedom in the States and Nation
Opinion -A Farewell to the Blum Center Dr. Quentin L. Quade opened the Virgil C. Blum Center for Parental Freedom in Education in August of 1992. -
Alternative Teacher Certification
Opinion -Over the past five years, a majority of states have seen increasing interest in alternative teacher certification, a process whereby people with a variety of educational and work backgrounds can become certified to teach in K-12 schools without -
Study Questions Value of Teacher Certification
Opinion -The Clinton-Gore administration's plan to raise the standards for teacher certification wouldn't put better teachers in the classroom but could actually reduce teacher quality, according to an important new report released on July 14 by the Thomas B. -
School Violence Prevention: Choice and Accountability Are Key: an interview with Alexander Volokh
Opinion -“Parents care about grades, they care about violence, they care about safety. School choice will tend to make any of those things go in the right direction. -
Regulatory Improvement Update
Opinion -As a general rule, people are more comfortable making decisions when they’re informed. They’re willing to do the research--and the leg work--to get the facts they need to make the right choice. -
Develop a First-rate Communications Strategy: An Exclusive Interview with David Ridenour
Opinion -A contributing editor to Environment News, David A. Ridenour has served as vice president of The National Center for Public Policy Research for the past 13 years. -
Sensenbrenner: Global Warming Treaty Doomed
Opinion -Last October, NASA scientist James Hansen, whose dire warnings more than a decade ago about global warming have resulted in the Kyoto Protocol, completely reversed himself. -
Local Officials Sue EPA, Other Federal Agencies for Clean Water Act Violations
Opinion -Charging the federal government with violating numerous laws in the creation and implementation of the 1998 Clean Water Action Plan, the Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts (WACD) filed suit against the U.S. -
Opponents Launch All-out Assault on School Choice Reform
Opinion -While the passage of significant new school choice legislation this year in Florida and Illinois has provided encouragement to supporters of parental choice in education, this success also has provoked their opponents to launch an all-out effort to -
Building Schools Cost-Effectively
Opinion -In 1997, U.S. taxpayers paid $27.1 billion for new public school buildings, additions, and renovations. -
Adding Diversity to the Teaching Workforce
Opinion -"The use of alternate routes gives promise of increasing the representation of minorities in the nation's teaching force," Dr. C. Emily Feistritzer, president of the National Center for Education Information, told a Congressional education subcommittee.
