Opinion
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High-Poverty Students Excel with Direct Instruction
Opinion -In successful high-poverty and high-minority schools in California, the predominant teaching method is direct instruction, where student learning is directed by and centered on the teacher. -
History a Mystery to American Youth
Opinion -A Harvard educator who wants to awaken America’s young to the inspiring power of heroism in American history has found that schools and the culture instead give students a “sour and suspicious” view of their national heritage. -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Illinois * Indiana * Michigan * New York * Ohio * Vermont ILLINOIS Churches Organize Forums on Vouchers The Illinois Conference of Churches has organized a series of public forums throughout the state to discuss the possibility of a publicly -
Study: Pill-Splitting Saves Money, Is Safe
Opinion -A Stanford University Medical Center researcher said pill-splitting saves money and is likely to be safe and effective with appropriate screening ... even though he didn’t specifically study the safety of the procedure. -
A Dissenting View: Patently Absurd
Opinion -President George W. Bush’s proposal to limit the ability of biotech and pharmaceutical firms to protect products from being replaced by generic versions before their patent expires is regarded as a way to speed affordable medicines to consumers. -
12/2002 State Legislative Update
Opinion -ARKANSAS Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) says state officials will begin promoting Eli Lilly’s and Pfizer’s prescription drug discount cards to low-income residents who are eligible for Medicare and lack prescription drug coverage. -
12/2002 The Friedman Report: C.A.R.E. of Dallas Shows Parents a “New World”
Opinion -Choices and Actions Regarding Education--C.A.R.E.--is a Dallas, Texas-based advocacy group that focuses on Hispanic parents. C.A.R.E. was founded in September 2001--yes, the same month as the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. -
12/2002 The Galen Report
Opinion -I was invited by Miles Cole of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce to speak about Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) at a public hearing before the Maryland Health Care Commission in Baltimore. -
Bush Acts to Limit Rx Patent Protections
Opinion -President George W. Bush announced on October 21 his plan to speed up the process of getting generic drugs to the marketplace. -
Comparison Shopping Can Reduce Prescription Drug Prices
Opinion -High prescription drug prices and what to do about them were high on the campaign agendas of candidates across the country, and those issues will likely find their way into legislative proposals at the state and federal level next year. -
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IJ Launches School Choice Offensive
Opinion -After the U.S. Supreme Court awarded control of the constitutional battlefield to voucher advocates on June 27, the Institute for Justice didn’t waste time celebrating the victory. -
Just the Facts: Sources and Uses of Public Education Dollars
Opinion -Total expenditures on U.S. K-12 public education and other related programs in the 1999-2000 school year were $381.9 billion, up an impressive $26.1 billion, or 7.3 percent, from 1998-99. Total revenues for the same period were 97. -
National Elections Bring School Choice Advocates to the Forefront
Opinion -The school choice community will lose two of its Congressional champions when House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) and Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-Colorado) retire at the end of this session. -
SPN Hosts Health Care Reform Summit
Opinion -Nearly 50 representatives of public policy think tanks from across the country converged on Indianapolis, Indiana on October 17-19 for the tenth annual meeting of State Policy Network. Attendees were welcomed to the event by SPN President Tracie Sharp. -
Ten Principles to Guide Medicare Reform
Opinion -Politicians of both major parties are endorsing ill-considered schemes to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. While the problems with the program are bad, most of the proposed solutions are worse. -
Schools Going Too Far to End Teen Smoking
Opinion -With schools around the world eating our educational lunch, you might think American school officials would have more important things to do than bust high school kids for off-campus cigarette smoking. -
Rated ‘R’ for Smoking
Opinion -Bond lit a cigar. The ace secret agent was, after all, in Havana, and it was almost as natural to smoke a Cuban cigar in that city as it was in the capital, Miami. -
Al Gore Wants a Single-Payer Nation
Opinion -Former Vice President Al Gore is back from hibernation seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency in 2004. In a November announcement, Gore says he favors single-payer health care. -
Microsoft Decision
Opinion -This letter by Joseph L. Bast, President of The Heartland Institute, was written in response to an editorial that appeared in the November 9, 2002, edition of the Chicago Tribune. -
To Improve, Public Schools Need Competition, Not More Money
Opinion -State Education Superintendent Robert E. Schiller must think Illinois taxpayers are pretty gullible if he thinks he can sell the idea that our public schools need more money to produce better results (Voice of the People, November 9, 2002). -
Them
Opinion -"I saw them again the other day, shivering in the cold, in the rain, without jackets or coats. ... They are the punished, the shamed. They are the Smokers. -
Municipal Broadband Networks
Opinion -Dear Editor: As the author of the study that was the subject of Tona Kunz's recent news article ("Municipal cable service knocked by think tank," November 2), I would like to respond to some of the criticism of my study leveled by municipal officials -
Taming the Asbestos Monster
Opinion -The nation’s courts are being flooded with lawsuits alleging health effects or the possibility of health effects from exposure to asbestos.
