Opinion
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Education Next in Line for Deregulation
Opinion -Would quality rise or fall if K-12 education were deregulated and opened to choice and competition? The question is at the forefront of the school choice debate. -
Britain’s Million-Year Wait
Opinion -Britons were shocked recently by newspaper headlines saying there are now a million people on National Health Service (NHS) waiting lists. The figure means one in 60 British citizens are now waiting for medical treatment. -
Education Industry News
Opinion -A sampling of education industry news from The Education Economy, a weekly publication of the market research firm Eduventures, Inc., which conducts research on the pre-K-12, post-secondary, corporate training, and consumer markets worldwide. -
Grassroots Succeed in Rewriting Minnesota MEHPA
Opinion -Minnesota citizens may soon experience medical martial law. -
Health Care Fight Returns
Opinion -The health care reform debate of the early 1990s didn’t end with the defeat of HillaryCare in 1993. It just went underground. -
Inflated Lunch Figures Foil Reform
Opinion -In the past, federal administrators from the National School Lunch Program have argued the program has little potential for abuse because “the worse that happens is a kid gets a free lunch.” But that’s not the case. -
Keeping Up or Falling Behind?
Opinion -Data from the American Federation of Teachers 2000 teacher salary survey show that, despite annual increases, the relative salaries teachers have declined over time. Nationally, a teacher’s average salary for 1999-2000 was $41,820, up 3. -
Missouri Court Limits HMO Ability to Control Costs
Opinion -There has always been tension among competing interests affected by managed care: for example, those interested in controlling health care costs, and those interested in providing easy access to health care services. -
School Vouchers Debated in New York
Opinion -More than one hundred people gathered at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York on April 4 to hear a debate on school vouchers organized by the director of the College’s Center for Catholic Studies, Professor Joseph A. -
The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Profile: Mr. Harper’s Murals “I’m a proponent of outstanding education,” says Russell Harper. He prefers to be known as an educator rather than an education reformer or a school choice advocate. -
FTC Urged to Hold Hearings on Tobacco Advertising
Opinion -May 29, 2002 The Honorable Donald S. Clark Secretary Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20580 Dear Secretary Clark: I am writing to voice my support for the request, submitted by U.S. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-2
Opinion -A Crushing Burden “The tort crisis,” writes Michael Freedman in the cover story of the May 13 issue of Forbes, “is really tomorrow’s news. -
Expect future global warming to be ‘minuscule’
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: The following letter to the editor, reprinted here with permission, was submitted to the IEEE Spectrum (Forum) in response to “Capturing Climate Change,” a review paper on global warming written by Tekla S. -
Grassroots Activists Take on Rx Limits
Opinion -Grassroots activists converged on the capitol steps in Annapolis, Maryland on April 3 to protest the General Assembly’s consideration of measures that would restrict the availability of prescription drugs. -
Scully Defies Congressional Subpoena
Opinion -Tom Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), defied a congressional subpoena to appear on April 10 before a House committee to discuss the effect of Medicare regulations on small businesses. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-1
Opinion -Six Months to Go and Counting In October 1999, notorious asbestos and tobacco plaintiffs’ attorney Ron Motley boasted to The Dallas Morning News that if he failed to bring the lead paint industry -- which he had just sued in Rhode Island -- “to its -
Utah Senate strikes back at frivolous environmental suits
Opinion -Utah legislators may have found an answer to the mountains of environmental lawsuits filed against federal, state, and local governments each year. -
Air pollution risk exaggerated
Opinion -On March 6, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a new study of the relationship between air pollution and mortality. “Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution,” by C. -
Department of Transportation funds smart-growth groups
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) gives millions of dollars in grants each year to promote smart-growth in American cities. -
November Initiatives Target Bilingual Education
Opinion -Statewide ballot initiatives in Massachusetts and Colorado this November will seek to eliminate bilingual education programs and replace them with one-year English immersion plans. -
U.S. Supreme Court Precedents
Opinion -In Committee v. Nyquist (1973) the U.S. Supreme Court held states cannot provide targeted financial aid to religious schools, either by paying grants directly to the schools or through the parents with a tuition reimbursement program. -
Education Industry
Opinion -A sampling of education industry news from The Education Economy, a weekly publication of the market research firm Eduventures, Inc., which conducts research on the pre-K-12, post-secondary, corporate training, and consumer markets worldwide. -
What Should We Expect from Smaller Classes?
Opinion -Math Problem #1. If a teacher devotes 20 percent of class time to one-on-one instruction, in a class of 30 students, how much more time does the teacher have to spend with each student when the class size is reduced to 15? -
Questions for Choice Opponents
Opinion -"America already has created the greatest voucher program in history," said U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige in a February 28 speech to the Black Alliance for Educational Options in Philadelphia. "It was stupendously successful.
