Opinion
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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. -
Edison Project Plans IPO
Opinion -Edison Schools, Inc., the nation's largest private operator of charter schools and standard public schools, announced plans in early August to raise up to $172.5 million through an initial public offering of stock. -
Public Education Now a $305 Billion Industry
Opinion -Tax revenues for public education in the United States surged 6 percent in the 1996-1997 school year, pushing total income to $305 billion from $288 billion a year earlier, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. -
Rigorous Accountability v. Guaranteed Outcomes
Opinion -WASHINGTON__Contradictions abound in the federal city. But one of the strangest in education annals popped up last spring, and it's had education policy circles buzzing all summer. -
Keeping up with the Education Market
Opinion -Just as companies like Barnes & Noble have responded to the changing nature of the retail marketplace by creating superstores on the Internet, some public education providers are beginning to position themselves so that the future market in online -
A Pricing Problem
Opinion -Two different pricing problems are associated with students switching schools: the lowest price incentive you must offer students at your school to persuade them to switch to another school, and the highest price you can charge students at other -
How to Reduce the Dropout Rate
Opinion -"It is devastating to have children who are being allowed to drop out of school without any intervention. They just float out of school. -
Lack of School Choice Compromises Student Safety
Opinion -A Wall Street Journal correspondent noted the irony that Ted Forstmann's announcement of the unprecedented demand for school choice--and his comments about "dangerous, dead-end schools"--came just a day after two misfits murdered 13 fellow students at -
Taxes Already Spent at Religious Institutions
Opinion -Florida already spends millions of tax dollars on private programs run by religious institutions, according to defenders of the state's new voucher program. -
Pa. Union Claims “Dumbing Down” in Certification Lawsuit
Opinion -Claiming that relaxing certification standards amounted to a "dumbing down of teaching," the Pennsylvania State Education Association filed suit in July to block a fast-track teacher certification plan implemented by the state Department of Education.
