Opinion
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Emerging Water Markets Help Reduce Shortages
Opinion -One of the most pervasive fears on the minds of millions of people throughout the world is the fear of an imminent water shortage. Some see this as proof that the world is running out of water. Not so! is the emphatic reassurance from Terry L. -
Environmental Compliance: Full Immunity Is Key
Opinion -In the Great Lakes State, we have enjoyed one of the most remarkable economic runs in our history over the last few years. Unemployment has fallen to record lows and the number of people with jobs has risen to record highs. -
Environmentalism at Odds with Free Trade?
Opinion -At the inaugural meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Singapore last December, proponents of linking strict international environmental standards clashed with supporters of free trade. -
GAO: Superfund Cleanup Pace Slows
Opinion -Superfund, the nation's costly and singularly unloved hazardous waste cleanup program, has few supporters save for the legions of lawyers who have made small fortunes exploiting the statute’s vast litigation web. -
Community-Based Schools: Educationally and Economically Essential
Opinion -African-American children in public schools are failing in record numbers, crippling their futures and limiting their careers. For some African-American parents, doing nothing about the problem was not an option. -
Unions the Major Obstacle to Market-Oriented Reforms
Opinion -Those familiar with the school reform movement, and with this newspaper, are keenly aware of the key role--sometimes positive, more recently quite negative--that teacher unions have played in school reform debates nationwide. -
Six Myths of School Finance Reform
Opinion -The Illinois General Assembly is debating whether and how to change the way the state finances its public schools. -
Where High Expectations Are Met … And More
Opinion -Twenty-five years ago, Marva Collins left a public school teaching position to open her own school, in her own home. -
PAVE-ing a Road to Parental Choice
Opinion -Michael Joyce is president of the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. The Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and values which sustain and nurture it. -
This Environmentalist Opposes More Strict Air Quality Standards
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed lowering the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone from 0.12 parts per million (averaged over one hour) to 0.08 (averaged over eight hours). -
Private Schools: Saving Illinois Taxpayers $2 Billion a Year
Opinion -Thank the Lord for the Illinois parents who send their children to parochial or private schools. By keeping their students out of tax-supported government schools, those parents save Illinois taxpayers over $2 billion a year. -
Failing Schools Get New Leadership for Turnaround
Opinion -As President Clinton prepares to take the helm of the nation in Washington, D.C. for another four years, a retired three-star army general has taken control over the “deplorable” public schools in that city. -
Minority Academic Progress Falters
Opinion -Reading scores for minority students are falling further behind those of white students, according to a report released in December by the Education Trust, a nonprofit group that monitors student performance. -
Houston May Contract with Private Schools
Opinion -What’s a school superintendent to do when he has serious overcrowding, increasing enrollment, 84 school buildings in need of renovation, and taxpayers who just rejected a $390 million bond issue designed to address those problems? -
Choice Advances in Pennsylvania
Opinion -On November 5, Pennsylvania voters improved the prospects for educational choice in the state by increasing the Republican majorities in both chambers of the state government. -
Choice Students Score Better
Opinion -A new performance analysis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s school voucher program has found that low-income minority students do better with choice. -
Whole Language Reading Instruction Faulted
Opinion -In a new report issued by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Dr. James J. Campbell, a Fulton, New York pediatrician, concludes that whole language reading instruction is responsible for a wide range of learning disorders. -
Reformers, Make No Small Plans
Opinion -More than fifty books, three hundred articles, and dozens of awards and prizes for his scholarship have made Dr. Herbert J. Walberg an internationally recognized expert in the field of education. He is one of three U.S. -
Funding Adequacy: Does Spending Matter?
Opinion -In its 1990 lawsuit against the State of Illinois, The Committee for Education Rights, a coalition of more than sixty school districts around the state, including the Chicago Public Schools, contended that the level of per-pupil spending in a school -
Dramatic Drop in Illinois Reading Scores
Opinion -When confronted with an across-the-board decline in state reading scores among elementary and high school students in 1995, Illinois School Superintendent Joseph A. -
Teachers Unions Defeat Washington Charter Proposal
Opinion -A proposal to create a charter school program in Washington State was defeated by a three-to-two margin on November 5, the victim of what its sponsors say was a campaign of lies and deception. -
How the Private Sector Serves Children with Special Needs
Opinion -Students with disabilities. At-risk students. Adjudicated youth. These are students that challenge the capabilities of schools and parents alike. -
Opinion Polls Show Support for School Choice
Opinion -A recent nationwide survey has found widespread public support for educational choice, confirming the findings of state-specific polls but contradicting two heavily publicized surveys conducted in early 1996. -
Edison Project Schools Show Positive Test Results, Study Says
Opinion -Early data show positive test score results for four schools that began operating last fall as part of the Edison Project, an experiment with privately managed public schools.