Opinion
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America Responds: Health Care in Its Finest Hours
Opinion -What could easily have been utter chaos in the hours immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC in fact was nothing less than the finest hours of medical service by health care professionals, firemen, -
Answers to the Math Quiz
Opinion -1 - C [12th-grade test question] 2 - B [8th-grade test question] 3 - B [4th-grade test question] 4 - E [8th-grade] 5 - Any numbers greater than 18. -
Charter School Facilities and Finance
Opinion -Charter school founders have many business decisions to make in the process of developing a school, most of which they will make themselves. -
Charter School Update
Opinion -Although charter school developers in Illinois may appeal a local denial to the State Board of Education, the state board has seen fit to overturn local denials only in two early cases. -
Defined Contribution Gains Momentum
Opinion -Defined contribution continues to make slow inroads into the benefits market. We previously reported MyHealthBank is entering the Washington market and UNICARE is entering Illinois. Now, UNICARE has announced it is also entering Indiana. -
Education Industry News
Opinion -Ameris to Merge with Children's Comprehensive Services On August 9, a merger was announced between Ameris Acquisition, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Kids Holdings, Inc., and Children's Comprehensive Services, Inc. -
HIPAA and the Criminalization of American Medicine
Opinion -Waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare are serious problems . . . but so are the federal government's efforts to combat them. Of course, egregious cases of fraud take place, and those engaged in criminal activities should be stopped and prosecuted. -
Individual Health Insurance: Solution for the New Economy? Part 1 of 2
Opinion -The employer-based health insurance system was born during World War II, when the economy and the health care system were very different than they are today. -
Just the Facts: Calif. Virtual Schools Offer Bennett’s K12 Program
Opinion -California's leading manager of virtual charter schools, Innovative Education Management, Inc., is now offering its kindergarten through second grade students the world-class curriculum of K12, the Internet-based learning program created by former U.S. -
Opinion: What ever happened to common sense?
Opinion -Have we lost our moral compass, our sense of priorities . . . our marbles? We send our military men and women off to the Middle East to be maimed and killed by terrorists and Scud missiles, while protecting our interests in this vital oil region. -
Roundtable identifies market-oriented global warming strategies
Opinion -The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers committed to improving public policy, has issued a report identifying 38 specific opportunities to improve regulatory, tax, and trade policies to encourage a market-friendly approach -
Schundler’s Tax Credits
Opinion -New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler's proposals for school finance reform have received much attention, not all of it favorable. -
Survey: 850,000 Students Homeschooled
Opinion -Parents in the U.S. are educating 850,000 children at home--1.7 percent of school-age children--according to a new study of homeschooling released in early August by the National Center for Education Statistics. -
Survey: Americans Want Health Care Choice
Opinion -A new survey, commissioned by Communicating for Agriculture and the Self-Employed (CA) and conducted by Strategic Research Group of Minneapolis, reports emphatically that Americans want more freedom in health care. -
Teacher Experience and Student Achievement
Opinion -Do students reach higher levels of achievement when taught by better qualified and more experienced teachers? Just barely, according to the latest fourth-grade math scores from the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress. -
Time to Cut Out the Middle Man
Opinion -During the last decade the health care industry, out of concern for growing health care costs, moved decisively away from traditional fee-for-service insurance to managed care. -
Try this Math Quiz
Opinion -The following are sample test questions from the National Assessment of Educational Progress for fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade mathematics, with 11 questions for each grade placed in random order. -
Uninsured Immigrants Burden the Health Care System
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: The increase in the number of people without health insurance is one of the our most troubling social trends. -
Update: Punishment Adjusted
Opinion -In early September, seven of the 11 teachers implicated in the cheating scandal reached settlements with the Montgomery County School System "adjusting the punishments," according to local press sources. -
Vouchers Proposed to Resolve Crisis in Vermont
Opinion -With Vermont's four-year-old educational funding mechanism fast approaching crisis stage, the Ethan Allen Institute has proposed a statewide voucher system that would restore the authority of parents over their child's school, meet the obligations of the -
WA Teacher Union Found Guilty
Opinion -The Washington Education Association intentionally broke the law in spending non-member dues for political purposes, but the state watchdog agency in charge of enforcing the law didn't act until "spurred to do so by citizen complaints" from the -
Will Bush Education Bill Help Class of 2014?
Opinion -Although many education reformers lost interest in President George W. -
How Promising Is Accountability?
Opinion -As Congressional conference committee negotiations continue for President George W. -
Who Tells Teachers They Can Teach?
Opinion -QUESTION: For which grade level would the following test questions be appropriate? 1. Which of the following is equal to a quarter of a million? (a) 40,000 (b) 250,000 (c) 2,500,000 (d) 1 / 4,000,000 (e) 4 / 1,000,000 2.