Opinion
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Popular Reading Program Raises Questions
Opinion -One of most touted remedial reading program nationwide, Reading Recovery® (RR), continues to expand, despite controversy over its effectiveness and reports that schools in some districts--including Columbus, Ohio, the first U.S. -
Chenoweth Blasts Slush Fund
Opinion -U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) has called for a criminal investigation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for mishandling tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be used for conservation projects. -
It’s a Wonderful Life, So Far
Opinion -The quality of life in the U.S. has been improved dramatically during this century. Just since 1945, the average life expectancy has gone from approximately 57 years to nearly 79. -
Economic Development Vs. Environmental Justice: Who Decides?
Opinion -In a country where common sense and practicality once were commonplace, community leaders regularly encouraged companies to build facilities within their borders, creating jobs for residents and economic development in the community. -
10/1999 Legislative Update
Opinion -American Heritage Rivers Initiative In early July, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals turned down a lawsuit filed by Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) and four other House members against President Clinton’s AHRI, ruling the members do not have -
Kyoto Protocol Puts National Security at Risk
Opinion -“The core problem for Congress in terms of national security implications of the climate change accord appears to be the lack of clarity or candor on the Administration’s part over exactly what it and the Pentagon signed onto in Kyoto,” Jeffrey Salmon -
Kyoto Wars
Opinion -The Clinton-Gore administration appears to have launched a full-scale effort to entice its corporate allies to lobby on behalf of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. -
The First Post-environmentalism Book?
Opinion -Hoodwinking the Nation Julian Simon New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers 1999 Why do reporters so often give front-page coverage to the latest sensational claims by the doom-and-gloom lobby? -
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, -
Certainly Uncertain about Climate Change
Opinion -Even as summer temperatures heated up as they normally do, opinion polls showed that Americans were tuning out global warming by large margins. Science suggests they have good reason to do so. I am not a scientist . . . -
More Junk Science from EPA
Opinion -Some five months ago, on May 13, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to impose more stringent emission standards on light-duty vehicles than are called for under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. -
CAFE Debate Looms in Congress
Opinion -The FY 2000 Transportation Department Appropriations bill ranks high on the Senate’s early fall agenda. -
EPA Funds What? Junk Education
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency’s education grants are relatively small, by federal government standards, often just a few thousand dollars each. -
Estimating the Education Market
Opinion -The latest Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll offers insights into what the education marketplace might look like if vouchers became a reality across the United States. -
All Charter’s Grads Are College-Bound
Opinion -All 22 students in the first graduating class of Boston's City on a Hill Charter School senior class are headed for college this fall. Many students at the school come from immigrant families and from the city's poorest neighborhoods. -
Differences in Teaching Math
Opinion -One of the questions asked by Liping Ma and Deborah Ball of Chinese and U.S. mathematics teachers was the following: Divide 1 3/4 by 1/2; Explain how you did the calculation; Make up a story problem for 1 3/4 divided by 1/2. -
NJ Bill Would Obstruct Contracting Out
Opinion -Under a bill introduced in the New Jersey Senate, school districts would be prohibited from contracting out transportation, cafeteria, and janitorial services while an existing contract with district employees was in force. -
10/1999 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Alabama * California * Georgia * Kentucky Michigan * Mississippi * New Jersey * New York Pennsylvania * Virginia ALABAMA Mobile Voters Trounce Tax Hike In a special election on August 17, a record number of voters in Mobile County -
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.
