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Education Policy for the New Millennium
Opinion -The members of the newly installed 106th Congress have been handed an historic opportunity to change the course of K-12 education, by changing the focus of federal education programs administered under the $13 billion-a-year Elementary and Secondary -
Union Contracts Ask Little of Maryland Teachers
Opinion -A new study of the 24 teacher union contracts currently in effect in Maryland reveals that county school boards are extraordinarily lenient with the unions and actually demand very little of public school teachers. -
Judge Supports Teachers’ Right to Sue Local Union
Opinion -A federal judge has added nearly 500 teachers to a federal class-action suit originally filed over five years ago by a group of teachers who argued that union officials illegally demanded payment of dues or agency fees from them. -
Poverty Can’t Hold Down Latino Math Scores
Opinion -Math achievement of students from low-income families improves only when family improves, right? -
Can Vouchers Save Edgewood’s Children?
Opinion -In a series of front-page articles just before Thanksgiving last year, Houston Chronicle reporter Thaddeus Herrick wrote about the Edgewood School District in San Antonio, Texas, where CEO America has initiated a ten-year project to determine the -
Schools Illegally Coerced to Adopt Bilingual Ed
Opinion -In the absence of critical oversight, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed upon schools an ever-expanding burden of bilingual education requirements with dubious justification, charges a new policy study from the Center for Equal Opportunity -
How Immigrants Fare in U.S. Public Schools
Opinion -Immigrant parents and their children decisively reject bilingual education and emphatically agree that children should speak English. -
Deja Vu: Sex Scandal from Arkansas
Opinion -More than two years before Arkansas' most famous son, President Bill Clinton, was impeached for lying about his "inappropriate" sexual relationship with a junior employee and for taking various illegal steps to cover up that relationship, a three-part -
Resolve to be Healthy in ’99
Opinion -The American Council on Science and Health is dedicated to helping individuals distinguish between real and hypothetical health risks. -
Media Ignore Sound Science in Global Warming Coverage
Opinion -On October 16, the Washington Post reported that an iceberg the size of the state of Delaware (92 miles long and 30 miles wide) had broken free from Antarctica, an event attributed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as "a possible -
Death in a Bread Box
Opinion -Editor’s note: The following environmental alert came via e-mail to The Heartland Institute from a concerned correspondent, who, as happens so often on the Internet, received it from someone who received it from who-knows-who. -
01/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Montana Lobbying Ban Rejected by Federal Judge A Montana statute banning lobbying by for-profit companies was struck down by a federal court judge who deemed it a violation of companies’ First Amendment right of free speech. U.S. -
25 Years after OPEC’s Embargo
Opinion -A quarter-century ago, rumblings of an energy shortage threatened economic, environmental, and energy apocalypse. But the threat never materialized. -
CO2: Villain or Friend? An Exclusive Interview with Keith E. Idso
Opinion -Dr. Keith E. Idso earned his Ph.D. in botany from Arizona State University in 1997. Prior to that, he received his M.S. degree in agronomy and plant genetics and his B.S. degree in agriculture, both from the University of Arizona. -
Heartland Offers Guide to Global Warming
Opinion -Much of what is reported about global warming in newspapers is just plain wrong--wrong science, wrong data, wrong implications--but few experts are available to rebut the newspaper articles, concludes a new publication from The Heartland Institute. -
Eco-arson Fails: Vail Resort Vows to Rebuild
Opinion -The torching of a Vail, Colorado, ski area by radical environmentalists opposed to expansion of the facility may have produced a political backdraft that could damage existing support for the group’s position. -
Will North American Carbon Sinks ‘Sink’ Kyoto Treaty?
Opinion -Although the United States and Canada produce a substantial amount of industrial carbon dioxide emissions, a new study contends that the North American continent is a net carbon sink whose vegetation may be absorbing the entire annual emissions of the -
Brookings Institution Report: Time for Second-generation Strategies
Opinion -Nearly 30 years have passed since the first Earth Day was held and the Environmental Protection Agency established. There is no question that great strides have since been made in cleaning up the nation’s air and water. -
Kyoto Protocol Would Bring U.S. Economic Growth to a Standstill
Opinion -Given the uncertainties surrounding the effects of carbon dioxide emissions on global warming, the Kyoto Protocol is seen by many as an excessive insurance policy whose premium will be paid for in large part by developed nations like the United States. -
Politics Slows Development of Climate-friendly Technologies
Opinion -For many U.S. industries, uncertainty over how to address the global climate change issue is one of the largest business risks they face. -
Study: U.S. Has Enough Wilderness
Opinion -Though roughly one-third of the land area of the United States could be defined as “wilderness,” ardent environmentalists clamor for additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS), the federal government’s wilderness set-aside program. -
Montreal Ozone Depletion Protocol No Model for Global Warming
Opinion -The national hysteria being whipped up by the media and special interest groups in response to global warming is beginning to look very much like the emotional crusade launched a decade ago to halt depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer. -
Kyoto Protocol: Hazardous to Your Health?
Opinion -The Kyoto Protocol--designed to protect humans and the environment from the effects of global warming--could cause as many as 183,000 deaths in the United States alone because of increased highway fatalities, worsened indoor air pollution, and
