Opinion
-
Taylor recommends . . .
Opinion -ECN: If you were to recommend a short list of books, journals, articles, or Web sites on free market environmentalism, what would be on that list? -
Book review: Exploding the myths of soil erosion
Opinion -The generally accepted opinion is that a large percentage of the world's agricultural land is degraded and is being further degraded year by year. -
Book Review: Privatization: No More Excuses
Opinion -Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships by E.S. Savas New York, NY: Chatham House Publishers, 2000 $34.95 pb; to order call 212/529-4686 or visit www.chathamhouse. -
Troubles Not Over for Texas Teacher Union
Opinion -In June, the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA), affiliated with the National Education Association, announced exploratory efforts to merge with the Texas Federation of Teachers (TFT), affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. -
Nearly 1 in 5 Union Members Are School Workers
Opinion -Education industry more heavily unionized than manufacturing or construction Workers in elementary and secondary schools in 2000 accounted for the largest share of union members of any sector in the U.S. -
Conference: The Education Economy Forum 2001
Opinion -Baltimore, Maryland Marriott Waterfront Hotel October 15-16, 2001 This conference brings together leading executives, investors, and analysts to address top issues in the pre-K-12, postsecondary, and corporate learning markets: Which business -
In Memoriam James P. Boyle 1933-2001
Opinion -James P. Boyle, the educator-entrepreneur who founded Ombudsman Educational Services in 1975 and became a leader and role model for the emerging education services industry in the 1990s, died on May 25, 2001, at the age of 68. -
Results from Chicago’s Other Schools
Opinion -Catholic Schools Students at the 264 elementary schools run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago scored as much as 25 percentile points above the national norm on the TerraNova standardized achievement test, according to results released by the -
Supreme Court OKs Bible Club Meetings In Schools
Opinion -On June 11, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered in a 6-3 decision that school districts must give children's Bible clubs the same access to public schools for after-school meetings they provide to other community groups. -
Masters of Their Own Souls: John Taylor Gatto
Opinion -John Taylor Gatto was an award-winning junior high school teacher for 30 years in Manhattan's public schools, and yet he gave it all up abruptly in 1991, resigning very publicly on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal. -
Big Hike Approved for GI Bill Vouchers
Opinion -In stark contrast to the rigid rejection that even very modest K-12 voucher proposals have met from Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the U.S. -
Parents Save SF Charter School
Opinion -Culminating months of effort, hundreds of largely low-income, minority parents whose children attend San Francisco's Edison Charter Academy were successful in persuading a majority of the city's board of education to keep the school under the management -
Mass. Lawmakers Scramble to Preempt Voter Initiative
Opinion -Perhaps hearing the footsteps of a possible statewide bilingual education reform initiative approaching in their not-too-distant future, Massachusetts policymakers have hurried to pass reform measures they can point to as meaningful, thus preempting a -
Just the Facts: Summer Reading
Opinion -School Reform News' contributing editors and friends helped compile this list of recommended books for summer reading Top Picks John Merrifield, The School Choice Wars Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press Inc. -
NAS summary distorted
Opinion -The very first sentence of the Summary to the National Academy of Sciences' recently issued report on global climate change (NAS/S) makes clear that the politics of climate change continues to take precedence over the science of climate change, even -
Patients’ Rights Debate Lacks Honesty
Opinion -There is something very important missing from the Patients’ Bill of Rights (PBOR) ... and from the politicians’ discussion of what the pending legislation entails. In a word, honesty is missing. -
08/2001: The Galen Report
Opinion -In “Importing HCFA-Style Regulation Into the Private Sector Through The Patients' Bill of Rights,” Robert E. Moffit of The Heritage Foundation looks beyond the litigation aspect of the patients' bill of rights and examines the regulatory implications. -
Pharmacy Groups File Suit Against U.S.
Opinion -The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) have filed a complaint against Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Tom Scully, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare -
Patients’ Bill of Rights An Unhealthy Remedy
Opinion -In an effort to help Americans unhappy with the service they’re getting from "managed care" health plans, federal lawmakers are laboring mightily to enact a "Patients’ Bill of Rights" that would let patients sue those plans when they feel they’ve been -
Government regulators quizzed about Klamath
Opinion -Forty-six days following a federal decision to strip a community of its livelihood, economy, and pride by enacting a cutoff of irrigation water to protect fish species, members of the California State Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife -
Chicago Schools CEO Vallas Resigns
Opinion -In surprise moves just a few weeks after the release of disappointing student test scores, Gery Chico and Paul Vallas, the two-man reform team largely responsible for nationally touted improvements in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) over the past six -
WI Democrats Vote to Slash Voucher Funding
Opinion -"So this is what the Democrats do when they're in charge: They try to kill a program visibly benefiting thousands of needy schoolchildren in Milwaukee. -
Milford Still Aims to Exclude Good News Club
Opinion -Although the U.S. -
Congress Approves K-12 Education Savings Accounts
Opinion -Senator Paul Coverdell, the education-conscious gentleman from Georgia, had to be smiling down on the proceedings when President George W. Bush signed the tax-relief bill into law on June 7.
