Opinion
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Mystery: What Makes a Good Teacher?
Opinion -Since good teachers have a profound effect on student achievement, the solution to improving student achievement would appear to be blindingly obvious: Get more good teachers. -
Smaller Classes No Remedy for Poor Teachers
Opinion -For the second year running, a reduced class-size intervention program for disadvantaged K-3 children in Wisconsin has yielded significant findings that demonstrate the critical role explicit teaching techniques and structured classroom management play -
Cleveland Parents Don’t Choose Voucher Schools. Say Opponents
Opinion -Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? -
What Characterizes an Effective Teacher? an exclusive interview with Barak Rosenshine
Opinion -Charles Dickens created the characters Thomas Gradgrind and Mr. M'Choakumchild in his novel Hard Times to satirize schoolteachers who taught "nothing but facts" and regarded students as "little vessels ... -
U.N. Study Ends Overpopulation Fears
Opinion -On second thought, the world is not going to suffer from ever-growing, catastrophic overpopulation in the foreseeable future, according to a new report issued by the United Nations Population Division. -
Helping the Uninsured Who Need it Most
Opinion -The economic slowdown will result in an estimated 1 million people losing their health insurance in 2002. Health insurance premiums are rising about 15 percent on average, with many individuals and businesses seeing increases of 30 to 40 percent. -
Bioterror Act Creates Its Own Terror
Opinion -In the wake of September 11, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended states adopt a model law creating sweeping new government powers to address public health emergencies. -
Imagine Accessing Quality Health Care from the Sky
Opinion -Imagine a woman in a rural community too small to have a first-class breast clinic, having her mammography results analyzed instantly by cancer experts at a National Cancer Institute like New York’s Sloan-Kettering Medical Center. -
05/2002: State Legislative Update
Opinion -ARIZONA Arizona's Statewide Health Care Insurance Plan Task Force is drafting a proposal to provide health insurance to the state's one million uninsured residents within the next three to five years. -
Ice shelf break-up caused media circus
Opinion -The panic mongers, from CNN to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC), are in full cry. An ice shelf, “Larsen B,” on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, has broken up into a mosaic of smaller icebergs. -
Health Care in England: Not Your Cup of Tea: Part 4
Opinion -There seems to be no argument when I report England’s National Health Service (NHS) is in need of major surgery. -
New Round Fired in Fat Wars
Opinion -The March/April 2002 issue of Health Affairs magazine offers up new ammunition in the nation’s most recently launched War: not on terrorism, but on obesity. -
Smile, You’re on Candid Camera-Pill
Opinion -The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a tiny camera patients can swallow to yield a living-color tour of the stomach and bowel. -
EPA enforcer quits with a flourish, joins left-leaning activist group
Opinion -A top Environmental Protection Agency enforcement official resigned with a flourish on February 27, joining a left-leaning environmental activist group and blasting the Bush administration on his way out the door. -
Asbestos Litigation Threatens Judicial Crisis
Opinion -The national plague of asbestos litigation is about to arrive on your doorstep in the form of higher prices, lost employment, collapsing stock prices, and delayed justice. -
Books, Web Sites Offer Lessons in Economics
Opinion -How many high school students do you suppose can answer the following questions? What function does an entrepreneur perform in the economy? What is the average rate of profit earned by businesses in the U.S. in a typical year? -
No Backlash on Standards
Opinion -The latest "reality check" on the standards-based reform movement, recently released by Public Agenda in conjunction with Education Week, confirms that the notion of a standards "backlash" has been greatly exaggerated. -
05/2002: The Galen Report
Opinion -Senior Capitol Hill staff members outlined prospects for passage of a Medicare prescription drug benefit this year during an April Commonwealth Fund conference on "Options and Possibilities. -
05/2002: The Pulse
Opinion -You are invited to participate in an online discussion list dealing with many of the issues we report on here. To check it out, send an e-mail to [email protected]. -
Anti-Obesity Activists Take Aim at Food Industry
Opinion -The television news media has jumped on the obesity bandwagon, providing a platform for self-described consumer activists who blame the food industry for obesity. -
Author: Medicare Faces Midlife Crisis
Opinion -“Midlife crisis” is the term given to the feeling many of us get around age 40: a fear that our time on this Earth is running out. This is a fair description of Medicare, a socialized health care experiment whose time is running out. -
Building the Twenty-First Century Hospital
Opinion -The only thing changing more than the weather this time of year is technology. The rapid developments made recently in high-tech health care are revolutionizing hospitals through advancements in medicine, surgical techniques, and computerized procedures. -
Bush Loosens up Privacy Rules
Opinion -The Bush administration has proposed changing some of the federal rules designed to protect the confidentiality of medical records, including the ability of patients to decide in advance who should be able to use their personal health information. -
Canada’s Abysmal Health Technology Record
Opinion -The Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario has just added a new MRI unit; Alberta has committed itself to increasing the number of MRI units in the province by seven; and the Federal Government has allocated $1 billion of spending to increasing
