Opinion
-
04/1999 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Florida * Illinois * Maryland * Montana Nevada * Pennsylvania * South Carolina * Texas FLORIDA Teacher Body Language Affects Student Learning Children don't take compliments from their teachers at face value, but weigh the content of -
Are Some Classes Too Small?
Opinion -During World War II, the U.S. Army taught typing in rooms so large that the instructor--a non-certified soldier-teacher--used a microphone, and students listened on headphones. A public school not only could do this, at least one has. -
Are We Running out of Resources?
Opinion -At current rates of production, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, known reserve bases of gold will last 31 years; mercury, 80 years; tin, 60 years; zinc, 55 years; petroleum, 44 years; copper, 56 years; lead, 41 years; and natural gas, 65 years. -
Business Coalition Sees Profit Opportunities in Global Climate Challenge
Opinion -Three major corporations, each with a different perspective on the Kyoto global warming protocol, have teamed up with an environmental group to formulate a proactive strategy to encourage economic growth while reducing the risk of climate change. -
Environmentalists Launch ‘Resourceful Earth Day’ Campaign
Opinion -Independent nonprofit organizations nationwide plan to use Earth Day 1999 to launch a multi-year campaign to change the way science and economics are used by the environmental movement in the U.S. and around the world. -
EPA must Change Before States Accept Responsibility for Environment Policy
Opinion -Despite public statements professing eagerness to cooperate more with the states, the U.S. -
ESEA: Congress Must Answer the Hard Questions
Opinion -A leading education expert says Congress must answer some tough questions about the purpose of federal aid to education when it reauthorizes the $13 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act later this year. -
New Auto Emissions Test Goes up in Smoke
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency’s new auto emissions test literally went up in smoke at its formal Chicago media introduction February 1. -
Programs Covered by Ed-Flex
Opinion -The "Ed-Flex" educational flexibility bill authorizes the U.S. Secretary of Education to allow any petitioning state to waive certain federal statutory or regulatory requirements relating to seven major federal programs. -
Rotten Apples in the Classroom
Opinion -There comes a point in nearly all debates over school choice when the advocate of public schools appeal to the emotions of the audience by giving examples of misconduct in choice schools: financial mismanagement, fraud, unqualified teachers, or -
Rough Waters Ahead for American Heritage Rivers Communities?
Opinion -Warning that persons most affected by the American Heritage Rivers Initiative “have little idea of its potential scope, impact, and cost--both economic and regulatory”--the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, a Washington, DC-based public -
Scares Du Jour
Opinion -An unfortunate characteristic of the American health news scene has been the tendency of the media and the public to misinterpret and exaggerate preliminary reports of health risks. -
Schools Must Pay for Health Care of Disabled Students
Opinion -In a March 3 decision likely to strain school district budgets across the country, a divided U.S. -
Study: Property Rights Need Not Suffer for Species Protection
Opinion -The Endangered Species Act of 1973, adopted to conserve and protect endangered or threatened species, has done little to live up to its mission. -
Supreme Court to Hear of Law Enforcement, Media Collusion
Opinion -"The government believes it is justified in bringing the media along on searches and arrests without authorization in the warrant," explained Reed Hopper of the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), "and the media believe they have the right to go anywhere -
Teacher Union Targets Washington Think Tank
Opinion -"The primary purpose or one of the primary purposes [of a political action committee] is to affect government decision making by supporting or opposing candidates or ballot positions. -
The Fire this Time
Opinion -For the past five years, spending by the federal government for forest fire prevention and suppression--most of it in the western states--averaged almost $900 million per year. -
Union Foils Decertification in Michigan
Opinion -An attempt to decertify the Michigan Education Association, undertaken by 55 MEA members in Branch County, Michigan, was foiled when MEA intimidation and interference caused the employees to fear for their jobs and vote to continue union representation -
Here’s an Opportunity to Make an Impact on Our Schools!
Opinion -Bert L. Holt, program director for the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, has been involved in education for 35 years, starting as an inner-city elementary school teacher in Cleveland. -
Unscientific, Deceptive, and a Disservice to American Women
Opinion -NBC health correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot's book, The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life was published in October 1998. -
Analysis: Reformulated Gas: EPA Didn’t Do its Homework
Opinion -In taking the Hippocratic oath, fledgling physicians solemnly pledge they will, “First, do no harm. -
Opposition to CEQ Appointment Mounts
Opinion -A growing number of environmentalists are opposing the appointment of a “proven ideologue” to the vacant chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). George T. Frampton Jr. -
03/1999 Junk Science Update
Opinion -Junk scientists take to heart the sports adage, "Winners never quit and quitters never win. -
Media Ignores the ‘Hole’ Ozone Story
Opinion -Not all climate scientists accept the argument that human emissions of greenhouse gases are responsible for a thinning of the Earth's ozone layer. But the skeptics’ views are consistently ignored by a news media that apparently does.