Opinion
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Soaring Spending Fails to Lift Achievement
Opinion -After unprecedented increases in federal spending on K-12 education during the Clinton administration, does U.S. public education need still more money? Teacher union leaders insist it does. "Conservative" President George W. -
Socialized Medicine in 10 Easy Steps
Opinion -Republicans have never been big fans of reforming the health insurance system, nor have many of them ever taken the time to learn much about it. -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -FLORIDA Challenge to Scholarship Program Rejected On April 24, the Florida Supreme Court declined to review the decision of the First District Court of Appeals in the legal challenge to the Florida Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows -
Tax Credits Would Boost Private Schooling in New Jersey
Opinion -Total private school enrollment in New Jersey would increase by 40 percent, and the state treasury would realize net annual savings of almost a half billion dollars, if the Garden State legislature enacted two proposed tuition tax credit plans, according -
Think Tank Offers Plan for Prescription Drug Security
Opinion -Lower-income senior citizens would get help right away with routine and catastrophic prescription drug expenses under a Medicare reform measure outlined in late March by the Alexandria, Virginia-based Galen Institute. -
Types of K-12 Education Tax Credits
Opinion -First, there's little difference between a tax credit and a tax deduction, except that a credit is worth much more than a deduction. -
Urban Legends Haunt Long-Term Care Decisions
Opinion -According to the American Opinions on Reforming Medicaid survey, conducted in August 1995, 72 percent of Americans cannot afford to pay the high cost of long-term health care (LTC) without financial assistance. -
Voucher ‘Lies and Distortions’ Stymie Choice for Poor
Opinion -A campaign of misinformation about school vouchers is keeping the benefits of parental choice out of the hands of low-income families, while middle-income and upper-income families continue to take such benefits for granted simply by changing their -
Where School Reformers Go Wrong
Opinion -John Merrifield's The School Choice Wars (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press Inc., 2001) is my early favorite for Best School Reform Book of 2001. -
Black Alliance Girds for Battle
Opinion -Marie Gladney, a single parent from Indianapolis, had never before seen such a diversity of African-American constituencies aligned behind a single issue. -
Advantage Charter Schools Narrow Learning Gap
Opinion -In a significant demonstration of how choice-based school reform can result in the creation of an effective, replicable learning environment, Advantage Schools on March 28 reported that students in its 14 charter schools across the country had achieved a -
What Is Direct Instruction?
Opinion -Advantage Schools uses the Direct Instruction (DI) curriculum to teach all children reading, writing, and math. -
How Bush Plan Would Change NAEP
Opinion -By administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress to a sample of fourth- and eighth-graders every year, President George W. Bush's testing plan would effect major changes in the "nation's report card. -
Big-City Mayoral Races Focus on Education
Opinion -Last year, nearly every candidate for national and state-level chief executive posts emphasized their plans for public education. -
Massachusetts Next for Bilingual Reform?
Opinion -The introduction of separate bilingual education reform proposals by two prominent Massachusetts lawmakers has sparked speculation that the Commonwealth may become the newest addition to a growing list of states that have undertaken major reform of -
The Cayuga Heights deer dilemma
Opinion -High above Cayuga's waters, in the Finger Lake country of New York, lies the attractive little village of Cayuga Heights. Over the years, a semi-tame population of highly visible white-tailed deer has evolved there. -
NYC School Board Approves Bilingual Reforms
Opinion -The New York City Board of Education on February 28 voted to make important reforms to the city's bilingual education programs. -
Does SAT Discriminate Against Minorities?
Opinion -Although University of California President Richard Atkinson disparages the SAT I and wants to drop it as a requirement for UC admissions, other college officials endorse the test, which focuses on higher-order reading and math skills. -
Why regulating CO2 would be a disaster
Opinion -Events before and after the election have only confirmed that President George W. Bush was indeed right to put tax relief at the center of his domestic agenda. -
Government has a habit of stealing property
Opinion -Over the past 20 to 30 years, private property owners in New Jersey have been intimidated and, in some cases, threatened by environmental extremists, usually with the blessings of Trenton and Washington. -
Desert treaty ratified in dead of night
Opinion -The U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification was ratified by the U.S. Senate on October 18, 2000. But few Senators yet know it has been ratified. -
The Continuing Struggle: Howard L. Fuller
Opinion -"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. -
National Test Is Key to Bush Education Reform Proposal
Opinion -Ronald Reagan's famous watchwords for arms control were, "Trust but verify." George W. Bush's equivalent for reform of federal education spending could be, "Trust but test. -
Murkowski introduces National Energy Security Policy Act
Opinion -Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced the 325-page National Energy Security Policy Act of 2001 at a Washington, DC press conference on February 26.
