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Opinion -Moratorium angers environmentalists Last November, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a moratorium on new listings of alleged endangered species, saying their resources were being drained fighting lawsuits from environmental groups. -
Forget about them
Opinion -If a child is reared to believe the sky is green, and the grass is blue, he will grow to believe it to be true. The rank and file environmentalist shares the same concerns regarding the environment as we do. -
Vouchers or Tax Credits for Full School Choice?
Opinion -Which is the better vehicle for implementing full school choice for children: vouchers or universal education tax credits? A recent Cato Institute policy paper, "Toward Market Education: Are Vouchers or Tax Credits the Better Path? -
Software How-Tos Available for Kids
Opinion -For over 15 years, Children's Software Press has reviewed and evaluated children's software products in its Children's Software newsletter. -
Recreationists have high hopes
Opinion -Last November's Presidential election has brought changes to federal and state land management agencies that will be warmly welcomed by the majority of Americans and outdoor recreationists. -
7 Essential Policies for a Competitive Education Industry
Opinion -1 State and local public funding of K-12 instruction must be entirely child based so that parents' school choices exclusively decide each school's share of state and local government funding. -
Bush Issues Privacy Rules
Opinion -President George W. Bush’s April decision to implement the hotly contested Medical Privacy Act shocked consumer groups and industry experts. -
Charter School Facilities and Finance: Starting a New School
Opinion -New charter school operators are interested in finding a facility that will house their school in its initial years. -
Climate change policy could create the mother of all cartels
Opinion -In the years ahead, President George W. Bush faces an army more menacing than Saddam Hussein's, which threatened to sweep down on all the oil fields in Arabia. -
Colorado Charters Get Construction Funds
Opinion -In April, Colorado Governor Bill Owens signed into law a school funding bill that includes a provision for the creation of a capital construction fund for charter schools. -
Do as DoEd Says, Not as DoEd Does
Opinion -In his ambitious education reform package, President George W. Bush has proposed holding schools more accountable for the way they spend federal tax dollars, including a reduction in funding for those that don't meet performance standards. -
Drug Benefit Debate Will Shed Light on Medicare Mess
Opinion -When Medicare was established in 1965, pharmaceutical drugs represented a small part of medical expenditures. -
Education Industry News
Opinion -Classwell Acquires Expeditionary Learning Provider On April 10, Classwell Learning Group, a provider of e-learning solutions for the pre-K-12 market, announced it had acquired GlobaLearn, an online curriculum provider that facilitates expeditionary -
Harry Potter and the Dragon of Health Care
Opinion -A mature Harry Potter has traveled through the Outerland, to the banks of the Hogwash. From here he can see his final destination: the Ministry of the Village. -
If the Children Aren’t Learning, We’re Not Teaching: Siegfried Engelmann
Opinion -One of the most vigorous continuing debates in elementary education is over which teaching method produces the best results. Is it teacher-directed learning, where the teacher conveys knowledge to his or her students? -
Letter to the Editor
Opinion -Dear Editor: Congratulations of the most superlative order on the introduction of Health Care News. I have never before seen 20 pages of exposition with which I could so completely agree. -
Long Choice Struggle Ahead, Catholics Warned
Opinion -Catholic teachers and administrators meeting in Milwaukee in April were warned by parental choice advocate Howard Fuller that the road to school choice was a long one, with the fight to put programs in place being only the first stage of a multi-phase -
NAEP Reading Scores Tell a Grim Tale
Opinion -The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is sometimes called the Nation's Report Card. -
No Boost Yet from Vouchers
Opinion -Parish schools of the Cleveland Archdiocese experienced a decline in enrollment in 2000-2001, which is notable given that the opponents of school vouchers have made much of the supposed "benefits" religious schools reap from publicly funded vouchers in -
NYC Study Hails Catholic Schools
Opinion -Despite attending schools that have significantly lower per-pupil funding levels, relatively fewer administrators, and higher student-teacher ratios, students in Catholic schools in New York City already outperform their public school peers by fourth -
On the frontlines: ELF criminals go unpunished
Opinion -It was said on the Senate floor that some Senators were threatened with bodily harm if they voted for John Ashcroft. Please investigate why Craig Rosebraugh, spokesman for terrorist group ELF in Portland, Oregon was in DC this week. -
PETA president sticks foot in mouth
Opinion -As the Agriculture Department and U.S. -
Reading Problem Becomes Opportunity for Scholastic
Opinion -In a refreshingly quick and direct response to the latest U.S. Department of Education report on the nation's reading problems, Scholastic, Inc. launched on April 30 two new programs to improve the reading skills of America's students. -
Small Business Owners Speak Out
Opinion -A new national survey, sponsored by the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) and co-sponsored by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and U.S.
