Opinion
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PDK Poll: Teachers Out of Sync With Public
Opinion -Although a recent poll of Massachusetts residents indicated teachers and their families were supportive of school vouchers, the sixth Phi Delta Kappa Poll of Teachers' Attitudes Toward the Public Schools showed only 16 percent of teachers favoring -
Detroit’s Soaring Graduation Rate Questioned
Opinion -According to figures submitted to Michigan's state Department of Education by Detroit Public Schools officials, Interim Superintendent David Adamany has worked a major miracle during his brief tenure as head of the city's 167,000-student system. -
Destination Milwaukee: Making the Pilgrimage
Opinion -In the not-so-distant past, Schlitz claimed it was the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Today, it's not the beer but school choice that has made Milwaukee famous again. -
SRN Just the Facts: Homeschooling
Opinion -Only 3 percent of the nation's 53 million schoolchildren are taught at home, compared to almost 90 percent who are educated in public schools. Yet homeschoolers won the top three places in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on June 1. -
Finding a School
Opinion -Looking up a school in the phone book has always been a frustrating task. The school could be listed in the white pages under its actual name, or under the name of the school district, the city, or the county, or under "Government Agencies. -
07/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -California * Connecticut * Hawaii * Illinois * Massachusetts Mississippi * Missouri * New Jersey * North Dakota * Ohio * South Carolina CALIFORNIA Tax Break Could Hurt Private Schools Democrat Governor Gray Davis' proposal to exempt -
ALEC: Different Approach Needed for Better Schools
Opinion -"If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting." Robert L. -
The ABCs of School Choice
Opinion -The Friedman Foundation has just published a pamphlet called The ABC's of School Choice, which provides a convenient, pocket-sized fact-book on school choice in America today. -
Time to Get Our Priorities Right: Schools Exist to Provide an Education for Kids: an interview with Dick DeVos
Opinion -“The issue isn't really about politics anymore, it's about helping kids who are trapped in failing school districts. We're on the ballot now, and it's no use arguing about whether it's a good time or a bad time. -
Public Rejects Red Tape, Federal Intrusion
Opinion -In a research summary released last December, National Capital Strategies, Inc. -
What Wasn’t Said at the NSBA Conference
Opinion -This year's 60th Annual Meeting of the National School Boards Association, with 9,000 delegates among the total 19,000 attendees, was typical of such organizational meetings. -
Teacher Unions Defeat Mandate Reimbursement Plan
Opinion -As Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge discovered to his chagrin last June, when state legislators failed to support his voucher proposal, Catholics may number in the millions and make up 30 percent of the state's population, but the lobbying clout of the -
Bilingual Education Being Sidelined
Opinion -After 30 years and over $4 billion spent on federal bilingual education programs, the evidence has become overwhelming: Bilingual education doesn't work, and in fact does a terrible disservice to Hispanic and other language-minority young people in our -
Low Literacy = High Waste in Education
Opinion -In the call for schools to be held accountable for results, one measure trumps all others: If public schools simply taught all children to read and write, they would pass any accountability test with flying colors. -
Recovering from a Natural Disaster
Opinion -On August 17 last year, a devastating earthquake in Turkey killed nearly 18,000 people. -
Dem Education Plan: Streamlining and Strings
Opinion -Despite talk of reform and calls for accountability as the U.S. -
Challenge to Illinois Tax Credit Dismissed
Opinion -On April 21, Judge Thomas Appleton of the Sangamon County Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Illinois Education Association and various other organizations that claimed a 1999 tax credit law violated four provisions of the Illinois -
Judge Rules Florida Vouchers Can Continue
Opinion -The same judge who in March had ruled that Florida's A+ Plan was unconstitutional in April rejected a request from the teacher unions to close the program until the Court of Appeals rules this summer. -
Key to Literacy: Phonics and Phonemes
Opinion -After reviewing more than 30 years of research on how children learn to read, a national panel recently concluded that, to be effective, reading instruction must include teaching word sounds, phonics, reading for fluency, and reading for comprehension. -
School Boards, Teacher Unions Share Anti-Voucher Agenda
Opinion -Over 9,000 delegates representing some 95,000 local school board members attended the National School Boards Association conference in Orlando on April 1-4. Just 14 of them showed up for the Federal Lobbying Update session. -
School Voucher Politics Heating Up in Michigan
Opinion -A school voucher initiative on the November 2000 ballot in Michigan has attracted opposition from the teacher unions and other anti-voucher groups, as was expected, but the measure also has provoked a surprisingly high level of heated friction among -
06/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * California * Kentucky * Maine * Massachusetts * Michigan Nebraska * New York * Pennsylvania * Utah * Virginia * Washington ARIZONA All Teachers Fingerprinted Arizona Governor Jane Hull signed a bill on April 10 that requires all -
SALT to Sponsor Conference on Education Technology
Opinion -The Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT®), in cooperation with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), is offering Education Technology 2000 on July 24-26, 2000 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, -
Vouchers Motivate Florida Educators
Opinion -Despite the cloud hung over it by litigation, Florida's fledgling A-Plus program already is yielding a mountain of evidence that vouchers--far from harming public schools, as critics claim--have an uplifting effect on low-performing public schools.
