Opinion
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Reporters Assess State Tests
Opinion -New York: Teacher Certification Test New York Times reporter Abby Goodnough recently related her experiences in taking New York State's main certification exam for teachers, who must score at least 220 of a possible 300 to pass. -
Americans Favor Competition to Improve Public Schools
Opinion -When asked whether spending more money or introducing competition would be more effective in improving education, respondents in a large Portrait of America survey left no doubt they viewed competition--allowing parents to choose schools for their -
Parents Don’t Want More Day Care
Opinion -A new Public Agenda survey released in August refutes the notion that parents of very young children are calling for more help with day care from government or from employers. -
Barriers to Teacher-Entrepreneurs
Opinion -Even after creating and running Lane Tutoring Services in Oregon for a number of years, Joshua Hirschstein still thinks of himself primarily as a teacher. He’s only now beginning to recognize he's an entrepreneur, too. -
Warning: Your School Safety Plan May Fail
Opinion -Having a school safety and crisis response plan (SSCRP) in place may not be enough: The plan could be inadequate, or might actually fail upon implementation. How can you know? -
Opinion Poll Update
Opinion -Vouchers Find Overwhelming Support in New York City New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he favors school vouchers to allow parents to choose their child's school. -
Next Big Killer App: Education
Opinion -Earlier this year, Merrill Lynch's Global Growth Group in San Francisco published a 355-page in-depth report titled The Knowledge Web, an analysis of how the Internet is catalyzing change in the $2.2 trillion knowledge enterprise industry. -
Long-Term Educational Progress Modest At Best
Opinion -No one organized a tickertape parade when the latest results from an ongoing assessment of the nation's long-term progress in K-12 education were released on August 24. In fact, the best thing U.S. Education Secretary Richard W. -
10/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Arkansas * California * Colorado * Florida * Maryland Minnesota * Nevada * Ohio * Oklahoma * Virginia ARKANSAS Alliance Bemoans 20+ Years of Low Achievement By all measures of educational achievement, Arkansas' education system is bad; it's -
National School Safety Contest Draws Praise, Seeks Entries
Opinion -Child trauma specialists say they expect SafeSchoolsWeek.com's national school safety poster contest to shed light on students' feelings about school violence. -
Lieberman Renounces Vouchers for VP Spot
Opinion -Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut), who in the past has bucked Democratic Party ideology to support school vouchers and the ending of racial preference programs, agreed to maintain silence on his unorthodox views when he accepted Vice President -
NAEP Trend Lines May Disappear Altogether
Opinion -Growing inconsistencies in how disabled and Limited English Proficient (LEP) students are either accommodated or excluded from NAEP testing may soon make it impossible to compare NAEP test data across states. -
Seven Principles of Good Government: Gary E. Johnson
Opinion -1. Become reality-driven. Don't kid yourself or others. Find out what's what and base your decisions and actions on that. 2. Always be honest and tell the truth. -
Poll: More Parents Want Out of Public Schools
Opinion -The latest results from an ongoing national public opinion poll reveal that an increasing number of parents appear to have given up on reforming the existing public school system from within. -
Clinton Mandates Multilingual U.S.
Opinion -In an exclusive August 24 WorldNetDaily story, John E. -
EdVentures 2000: Teachers as Entrepreneurs
Opinion -Almost all of the discussion of school choice is focused on parents being free to make a choice of schools and principals being free to make a choice of teachers for their schools. -
Test Scores Show Failure of Bilingual Ed
Opinion -Bilingual education reform may have aced its most importance test to date when results for English learners on the Stanford 9 test were released earlier this month. -
Human Capital in the New Economy
Opinion -In 1980, a college graduate earned 50 percent more than a high school graduate; today, that gap is 111 percent. In 1980, a college graduate earned 50 percent more than a high school graduate; today, that gap is 111 percent. -
Black Alliance Declares War on Low Achievement
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DC--Declaring it unacceptable and un-American to deny parents the right to decide where their children are educated, a new coalition of African-Americans from across the United States gathered in the nation's capital on August 24 to launch -
RAND Study Has Something for Everyone
Opinion -An analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results, released this summer by RAND researchers, touted optimistic conclusions about the effectiveness of several popular public school reform strategies. -
Parental Satisfaction and Access to Private Schools
Opinion -At the August 24 press conference announcing the formation of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, BAEO President Howard Fuller noted the U.S. -
Better Education Does Make All the Difference: Governor Gary E. Johnson
Opinion -Things aren't going to change tomorrow in a community where there's only one school. But give it time. Give it a year. Give it two years and I think what you're going to see is an explosion of innovation, even in rural areas. -
Children Forced to Attend Dangerous Schools
Opinion -Two recent class action lawsuits filed at opposite ends of the country raise serious questions about whether public school officials are being held accountable for the safety and integrity of the buildings they are entrusted to maintain.
