Opinion
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When Black & White Make Green – A Process That Works
Opinion -Melvin J. Gravely's latest book, When Black & White make Green, is written as a challenging and inspirational discussion between Black and white business folks in a last minute rush to keep their city from turning into "riot city" on national television. -
A Skyway Lift for the CTA?
Opinion -Congratulations to Mayor Daley. His groundbreaking deal to lease the Chicago Skyway to a private toll road company for 99 years will bring $1.8 billion into city coffers. It is the first such deal in the United States. -
Specialty Surgical Hospitals: Better Health Care through Innovation
Opinion -With the 2004 campaign season now closed, we can reflect on how the politicians just didn’t realize--or wouldn’t admit--that government could do much to improve health care in the U.S. -
Risky Drug Importation
Opinion -Now Governor Blagojevich wants to import 200,000 doses of flu vaccine from Europe. The flu vaccine he is trying to get has not been clinically tested on U.S. -
How Blacks Should Vote
Opinion -I recently read a column titled "How Jews should vote?" and in this very partisan year, before my eyes could blink, the word Jews turned into the word Blacks. -
Inspection Failures Compromise School Safety
Opinion -While parents may have a reasonable expectation that their child's public school--as a facility owned and operated by the government--would be a safe structure that has passed local construction and fire inspection requirements, recent reports from -
Educating Minnesota about School Choice
Opinion -Tim Sheehy, president of the Metro Milwaukee Association of Commerce, believes school choice provides his Wisconsin city with a competitive advantage over other Midwest cities. That's why, on a recent visit to St. -
Re-Invent the FCC
Opinion -Eight years after the enactment of the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress again is considering rewriting our communications laws. -
Russian Parliament OKs Kyoto Protocol
Opinion -Russia's upper house of parliament voted 139-1, with one abstention, on October 26 to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The lower house, the State Duma, had approved the measure four days earlier by a 334-73 vote. -
Commentary: Cap-and-Trade Helps Address ‘Knowledge Problem’
Opinion -The success of cap-and-trade programs and other moves toward regulatory flexibility shows how little "experts" know about the best ways to control pollution. As an example, consider the Clean Air Act's Title IV sulfur dioxide (SO2) trading program. -
Chinese Aim to Capitalize on Safe, Revolutionary Nuclear Technology
Opinion -Scientists and political leaders in China are searching for ways to generate enough energy to fuel the country's rapidly growing economy while simultaneously cutting power plant emissions. -
Tax-and-Spend Policies Costing Politicians Their Careers
Opinion -During this year's election primary season, the issue of taxation was a decisive factor in races across the country. -
Tax Fighter Wins Big over Wisconsin Senate Leader
Opinion -When Wisconsin Assemblyman Glenn Grothman decided to challenge State Senate Majority Leader Mary Panzer in the September 14 Republican Party primary election, he felt confident despite the power of her incumbency. -
Pork Industry Integration Benefits Everyone
Opinion -The pork industry, like other parts of the U.S. economy, is undergoing rapid change due to changing technology, demands from consumers, and methods of organizing production. -
Charter School Studies: Apples to Apples vs. Apples to Oranges
Opinion -The New York Times created consternation in the charter school community when it gave favorable front-page coverage to an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) study purporting to show charter students score lower on national assessments of reading and -
GAO Weighs in on NCLB Compliance
Opinion -"How is the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act going?" was one question many of the nation's education researchers and policy analysts found themselves asked repeatedly as summer waned and Election Day approached. -
Fordham Foundation Will Authorize Charter Schools
Opinion -The Thomas B. -
U.S. Education Policy at a Crossroads: Stop the Waste, or Waste More?
Opinion -Drawing its evidence almost entirely from official sources such as the U.S. -
Appeals Court Will Reconsider Florida Voucher Ruling
Opinion -When the First District Court of Appeal struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship program in August, the decision was made by just two judges on a three-judge panel of the court. -
Sacrificing for Her Son
Opinion -Like most eight-year-olds, Abraham Larner is in third grade. His path to get there, though, has been quite a challenge. -
Contributing Editor Now Promotes Spirit of America
Opinion -Pamela Riley, then with the Pacific Research Institute, was one of the original group of contributing editors to School Reform News when the newspaper was first published in January 1997. For much of the past year, she worked as a U.S. -
Where Are They Now?
Opinion -Some of School Reform News' early contributing editors are now making much bigger contributions to education ... and to the nation. Jeff Flake Formerly executive director of the Goldwater Institute, Jeff Flake is serving his second term in the U.S. -
Power to the Principal
Opinion -"My recommendation would be to turn every single school in the district into a charter school and to turn the central office into a support center for the charter schools. -
States Take Up Mercury Emission Reductions
Opinion -Some environmental activist groups, unwilling to wait for EPA to finalize its rules and opposed to the cap-and-trade approach the agency favors, are stepping up their efforts to lobby state legislatures, where they hope to get passed tough mercury rules
