Opinion
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State Officials Fined for Tardy Response in Union Case
Opinion -The Washington Education Association is not the only organization in the state of Washington to be fined for responding tardily to court-imposed deadlines for handing over documents to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF). -
Ron Paul: Ventura Right about Education
Opinion -Instead of fighting over what type of federal intervention is best for the nation's schools, "Congress should recognize that Governor Ventura is right" and get Washington out of education, says Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas). -
Ohio Judge Overrules Voter Rejection of Higher Taxes
Opinion -Although Ohio voters last year decisively rejected a proposal to hike taxes for increased education funding, the courts have demanded that state legislators there develop a new school funding formula to increase per-pupil spending and eliminate -
Who Will Pay?
Opinion -Two U.S. Supreme Court justices dissented from the high court's March 3 ruling that school districts must pay for the continuous, one-on-one nursing care some disabled students require to go to school. -
Earth Day ‘99: Cause for Celebration, Not Alarm
Opinion -April 22--Earth Day--has become the country’s de facto national environment holiday, a day when Americans from Maine to California, and from Alaska to Hawaii, turn their attention to environmental concerns. -
Congress May Backslide on ‘Secret Science’
Opinion -A recent victory in the war against junk science is in jeopardy . . . and now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of their country. -
Study Finds AHRI Both Unnecessary and Unconstitutional
Opinion -The American Heritage Rivers Initiative, which President Clinton says will promote economic growth along designated rivers and protect their heritage, in fact duplicates the efforts of existing federal programs and creates another level of bureaucracy. -
Congress Takes Up Education Bills
Opinion -With elected officials from all points of the political compass eager to demonstrate that their interest in schooling is as great as that of the American public, education has recently been the focus of substantial legislative activity in the nation's -
Political Propaganda in Elementary Reading Texts
Opinion -Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason Sandra Stotsky The Free Press, New York, 1999 316 pages, $26.00 What could be more innocent than a basal reader? -
What Can Parents Do?
Opinion -Parents can work for better reading instruction using the ideas offered by Sandra Stotsky in the concluding chapter of her book, Losing Our Language. Assess Textbooks and Teachers Parents should assess their children's textbooks and teachers. -
Who Benefits From Title I?
Opinion -Passed in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," Title I, Aid to Disadvantaged Children, receives the bulk of the $13 billion spent by the federal government to aid K-12 education. A new report from the U.S. -
Washington Union Fined $15,000 for Non-Disclosure
Opinion -The Thurston County Superior Court fined the Washington Education Association (WEA) $15,000 on February 26 for failing to turn over a document detailing the union's political plan for the 1996 elections. -
By the Numbers: Holding Teachers Accountable
Opinion -Educators in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, and Ohio are weighing the introduction of a value-added approach to teacher and school performance evaluation already used in Tennessee to analyze how well schools and individual teachers are doing their jobs. -
Class Size Here and Abroad
Opinion -In 1806, the Free School Society opened a school in New York City where one teacher, using student monitors, was in charge of a school of 1,000 students. That was the Lancasterian, or monitorial system, developed in England. -
States, Not Federal Government, Are Key to Improving Air Quality in U.S.
Opinion -The nation’s air quality was improving long before the federal government established mandatory guidelines, says a new study, and those guidelines deserve very little of the credit for air quality improvements seen since their adoption. -
Junk Science or Sound? Five Questions to Ask
Opinion -In her February 17 address to the Independent Women’s Forum conference, “Scared Sick? -
Clinton Climate Change Budget Would Strengthen Global Warming Lobby
Opinion -In his budget request for Fiscal Year 2000, President Bill Clinton called for a dramatic 34 percent increase in funding for climate change research and tax incentives to encourage early action on climate change. -
Global Warming Debate Moves Forward on Many Fronts
Opinion -The government of Iceland announced in February that it would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, becoming the first OECD country to make such an announcement. -
Scared Sick?
Opinion -Shiny red apples on every table served as silent reminders of the Alar scare that ten years ago had mothers asking state troopers to stop school buses and take "dangerous" apples out of their children's lunch bags. -
Bills to Promote Educational Freedom
Opinion -Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) will introduce the following three bills to give American parents and communities direct control over their education dollars. Family Education Freedom Act. -
Class Size Reduction: Costly and Ineffective
Opinion -With education a major public concern and the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) up for reauthorization, many reforms are being put forward. Most of them reduce simply to "more of the same. -
National Reading Scores Show Some Improvement
Opinion -While Vice President Al Gore praised what he characterized as the "great progress" made by American students in national reading tests, a Department of Education official offered a much more sober assessment of recent test results, saying only that -
Planned Congestion in Portland
Opinion -Is “sustainable growth” good for the environment? Not if it involves planned congestion, misallocation of resources, and penalties for private green space, says John A. Charles, environmental policy director for the Cascade Policy Institute of Oregon. -
Education Savings Accounts Reintroduced
Opinion -Joined by a group of schoolchildren and a banner reading "Save for Students," Representatives Kenny Hulshof (R-Missouri) and William Lipinski (D-Illinois) introduced on March 10 the House version of Georgia GOP Senator Paul Coverdell's Education Savings