Opinion
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Union Chief Defends Teachers After 20/20 Expose’
Opinion -ABC News reporter John Stossel provoked the wrath of teacher union president Bob Chase after a recent 20/20 program concluded that more competition, rather than more money, was likely to improve government-run schools. -
What Makes a School Good?
Opinion -When newspaper food critics rate the quality of restaurants, they usually devote most of their efforts to judging the quality of the food that is served rather than comparing menu prices. -
Charter Schools Ahead of Curve on School Size
Opinion -U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley plugged for small schools in his recent back-to-school message. “We need to find ways to create small, supportive learning environments that give students a sense of connection to each other,” Riley said. -
A Salute to Clint Bolick
Opinion -Citizens for Education Freedom honored Clint Bolick, vice president and litigation director for the Institute for Justice, with the Educational Freedom Award at CEF's Fortieth Anniversary Gala Banquet in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 16, 1999. -
Dirty Secrets that Certification Doesn’t Expose
Opinion -While the National Education Association is pushing to require certification for all teachers in public schools to protect students from unqualified teachers, a recent series of stories in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette indicates that students are far -
Incentives: The fundamental problem in education: an interview with Eric A. Hanushek
Opinion -“The fundamental problem in education is that there aren’t any incentives to increase student performance. Nobody’s career is really dependent upon the children doing well.” Some of the questions that economist Eric A. -
Court Lifts Cloud over Cleveland
Opinion -Responding to an October 28 request from Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery to take emergency action, the U.S. Supreme Court on November 5 voted 5-4 to stay an injunction against the Cleveland school choice program. -
High School Grads Lack College, Work Skills
Opinion -While public school educators frequently raise concerns that many entry-level students don't come to school "ready-to-learn," many employers and college professors raise similar concerns about the work product of these same educators: high school -
Union Chief: Give Money to Us, Not to Parents
Opinion -"I represent teachers. That's who I represent. -
Capitol Hill Conference Hails School Choice
Opinion -It has been 20 years since Tom Tancredo, then a Colorado state legislator, introduced his first voucher legislation in Denver. His proposal never even make it out of the education committee that he himself chaired . . . but Tancredo didn't give up. -
Parent ‘Vote’ Is Key to Better Schools
Opinion -Today, we think it strange that women once didn't have the vote. In the future, says entrepreneur John Walton, co-founder of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, it will seem equally strange that many Americans today don't have an educational vote. -
Call to Halt School-to-Work Spending
Opinion -WASHINGTON--Since the 104th Congress passed the School-to-Work Opportunities Act in 1994, the federal government has dispensed a total of $2 billion in implementation grants to the 50 states. -
Views on Vouchers
Opinion -It’s not a matter of public vs. private schools, it’s a matter of better schools. -
Lessons from Wisconsin
Opinion -The intellectual debate over vouchers in Milwaukee may be over, but the battle to regulate educational choice still is being fought, according to American Education Reform Council president Susan Mitchell in a recent report from the Wisconsin Policy -
Two School Chiefs Talk about Vouchers
Opinion -While dismissing vouchers as "a diversion" and "a proxy for real investment," New York Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew admitted to a Milwaukee audience that "you're causing me pure hell in New York. -
School Choice for the Next Millennium
Opinion -Treat everyone the same, with a fair share for each person: The idea is so basic that children learn it in kindergarten, long before they’re able to express it as a fundamental concept of the rule of law. -
01/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arkansas * Alabama * Connecticut * Illinois * Indiana * Kansas Massachusetts * Michigan * New Hampshire * Pennsylvania * Texas ARKANSAS A Town Divided--by Teacher Salaries When the Texas Legislature approved a $3,000-per-year pay increase -
The New Philanthropists
Opinion -The idea came from a successful Wall Street entrepreneur and a director of one of America's most successful retailers, but it didn't sound like a winning proposition. -
Meager Results from STW in Wisconsin
Opinion -"While many Wisconsin schoolchildren did participate in classroom-based job and career awareness programs, there is little evidence that School to Work has had any impact at all on Wisconsin's future work force.” James H. -
Profile of a Pedophile
Opinion -"If sexually abusive educators had tails and horns, matters would be simplified greatly. The fact is, however, they often are well-liked by students and colleagues. -
School Choice Debate Is Over, Says Norquist
Opinion -If it's true what choice opponents say about vouchers--that they're a hoax--then a lot of Milwaukee residents are being taken for a ride, according to a new poll conducted this fall by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. -
The Dark Side of Suburban School Achievement
Opinion -In early November, parents in many New York communities were shocked to discover that buying an expensive home in an exclusive suburb hadn’t guaranteed a good education for their children in the local public schools. -
Helping Teachers Raise Student Achievement: an interview with William L. Sanders
Opinion -When a sports player wants to work on improving his or her game, it's not very productive to spend time simply looking at the scores of recent games. -
We’re Talking about the Future Here: an interview with Harold W. Stevenson
Opinion -If "mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences," as English scientist Roger Bacon put it in 1267, then many of today's public school students are being given an ill-fitting key to unlock the gate of the sciences.
