Opinion
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Another Sign of Bad Economic Times: Low Insurance Premiums
Opinion -To high unemployment rates, soaring national debt, and slowing growth in gross domestic product, add another measure of the nation’s economic troubles—property-casualty insurance premiums. -
President’s Corporate Tax Hike Seen As Job-Killer
Opinion -Congress adjourned before advancing a bill to increase taxes on the profits of U.S. companies with foreign subsidiaries, but the issue could arise again during the lame duck session. -
AT&T Invests $225 Million in Michigan Wireless Network
Opinion -Despite Michigan’s dismal economic outlook, telecom giant AT&T has announced it has spent more than $80 million on its wireless network in the state during the first six months of 2010. -
Classroom Clickers Migrate from Lecture Halls to K-12 Schools
Opinion -Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. -
SEC Accuses New Jersey of Financial Fraud
Opinion -Sheila Weinberg was not surprised to learn the Securities and Exchange Commission had accused the State of New Jersey of securities fraud. -
Proposed Florida Business Tax Phase-out Draws Fire
Opinion -Only three states—Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming—have no corporate income tax, but Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott wants to add the Sunshine State to that select list. -
Free Checking, RIP—Mostly
Opinion -Citibank’s mid-tier checking account customers have begun paying a new monthly fee of $20 if the average combined balances of all their accounts fall below $6,000.“Previously, the monthly maintenance fee was $9. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #9-21
Opinion -A Brooklyn lawyer has been denied state income tax deductions for “therapeutic sex,” “massage therapy to relieve osteoarthritis and enhance erectile function through frequent orgasms,” and for “pornography to enhance sexual performance in lieu of taking -
Khan Academy Teaches the YouTube Generation
Opinion -Eastern Kentucky University’s Chemistry II summer course was no picnic: Tough concepts and lectures chock-full of technical content regularly vex students. -
Attorneys General Enter Mortgage Maelstrom, Probe Foreclosures
Opinion -Attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of Columbia have thrust themselves into a mortgage maelstrom that had already stopped major mortgage companies from moving on some foreclosures. -
Study Ranks Top 30 School Reform Cities
Opinion -New Orleans, Washington, DC, and New York City are the U.S. cities most hospitable to education reform, a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute finds. -
Schools, Universities Embrace iPad
Opinion -Like their peers at high schools across the nation, students at Pikes Peak Prep charter school in Colorado Springs are learning the basics of biology this fall with a good old-fashioned frog dissection. -
‘Classroom Clickers’ Migrate from Lecture Halls to K-12 Schools
Opinion -Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. -
Consumer Power Report #243
Opinion -What I am hearing is that Congress will bite the bullet and enforce the physician fee cuts this year, mostly because of deficit concerns. -
NYC Teachers Released from ‘Rubber Rooms’, Required to Work
Opinion -New York City has reassigned teachers accused of misconduct or incompetence from its notorious “rubber rooms” to clerical work, food preparation, or other nonteaching duties while they continue to await disciplinary hearings. -
New Jersey Enacts Open Enrollment Public School Choice Option
Opinion -A new state law allows New Jersey parents unsatisfied with the quality of their local school to enroll their children in a public school outside the borders of their home district. New Jersey Gov. -
Colleges are Obama’s next takeover target
Opinion -A proposed federal rule change barreling toward U.S. Department of Education approval could make all of higher education—private and public colleges alike—the newest prize in the Obama administration’s trophy case of federal takeovers. -
Schools, Universities Embrace iPad
Opinion -Like their peers at high schools across the nation, students at Pikes Peak Prep charter school in Colorado Springs are learning the basics of biology this fall with a good old-fashioned frog dissection. -
Obama Failed the ‘Education Nation’ Test
Opinion -NBC dedicated a week of programming at the end of September to spotlighting the good, the bad, and the ugly of K-12 education in America under the rubric “Education Nation. -
Northern Michigan Receives $103 Million Broadband Federal Stimulus
Opinion -For the second time since January 2010, money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been directed to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern part of the Lower Peninsula for broadband buildout. The two grants total $103 million. -
FCC Launches ‘Parents’ Place’ Web Site
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission has launched a “Parents’ Place” Web site, stating the site will help parents navigate the “complex media landscape” of the Internet with their children. -
Outlook ‘Gray’ for DC Special-Ed Reform
Opinion -A plan to distribute school vouchers to special-needs students throughout the District of Columbia faces an uncertain future following the defeat of incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty (D). -
Threat of Teacher Layoffs Overstated in North Carolina
Opinion -Thousands of teachers throughout North Carolina received pink slips last spring, informing them of impending job losses in the 2010-11 school year. -
Facebook Founder’s $100 Million Gift to Newark Schools Raises Hopes, Concerns
Opinion -Mark Zuckerberg says he hopes a $100 million grant to the Newark, New Jersey public school system will galvanize educational philanthropy and spur reform in the troubled urban district.
