Opinion
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Ballot Errors Linked to Illiteracy
Opinion -Although Jesse Jackson claims racism is behind the disproportionate disqualification of black votes in Florida in the recent national elections, the fact that illiteracy levels are disproportionately higher in Florida's black-majority congressional -
Skills at Literacy Level 1
Opinion -Usually Can Perform Usually Cannot Perform Sign name Determine eligibility from a table of employee benefits Identify a country in a short article Locate intersection on a street map Locate one piece of information in a sports -
Advantage Schools’ Effective Approach
Opinion -Advantage Schools, a for-profit charter school company based in Boston, believes it has a working model for the future of American urban education. -
Nobel Goes International
Opinion -Nobel Learning Communities Inc., the largest operator of private schools in the United States, recently formed a strategic partnership with South Ocean Development Corporation, the largest operator of private schools in China. -
“Whole Language” Faulted for U.S. Reading Woes
Opinion -First you learn to read, then you read to learn. But if you don't learn to read effectively, how can you ever read to learn effectively? -
How Do Children Read?
Opinion -Let's begin by picturing a child reading a book silently to herself. She's just sitting there, fairly motionless, staring at a book. Occasionally, she turns a page. Sometimes she laughs quietly to herself for no apparent reason. -
SRN Just the Facts: Education Statistics
Opinion -On average, the U.S. spends $6,168 per student in public schools, according to the latest official data from the U.S. Department of Education, which are for the school year 1997-98. Even those data involve the use of a preliminary estimate of $285. -
Where Does the Money Go? (Hint: Not to teachers)
Opinion -In the fall of 1997, there were 46,127,194 students in K-12 public schools in the U.S., with 5,258,671 teachers and instructional staff employed to serve them: one staff member for every 8.8 students. -
Bush Picks Paige for Education Secretary
Opinion -President George W. -
New York City Hosts Important School Choice Conference
Opinion -On December 13, noted proponents of school choice--and a few opponents--met at the Millennium Hotel on 44th Street in Manhattan to discuss and debate the merits of school choice. -
School Choice Debated at New York City Conference
Opinion -Opponents and proponents of school choice debated their differing positions at the December 13 school choice conference in New York City, cosponsored by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. -
Americans Still Don’t Understand School Choice
Opinion -Last November's defeat of school choice initiatives in California and Michigan suggests the choice movement has lessons to learn about pursuing change through state legislatures versus ballot initiatives, according to speakers at a Heritage Foundation -
What Makes a Good School?
Opinion -"Do you know how hard it was to find a good school system? We won't be able to afford the lifestyle our neighbors live, but at least we won't have to worry about the schools. Why should it be this hard to find good schools? -
Poor nations can’t afford debate on gene-altered crops
Opinion -Cape Town, South Africa—Recent world conferences on agricultural biotechnology have made it unmistakably clear that if governments foil the growth of this technology, mankind will be denied solutions to a host of problems that plague many nations, -
Fluoridation ruled safe again
Opinion -The British medical journal Lancet recently published a review of 214 studies performed over the past 50 years, since fluoridation of drinking water was introduced after World War II. -
Bush Education Advisors
Opinion -In addition to nominating Houston Schools Superintendent Roderick Paige as Secretary of Education in his new administration, President George W. Bush named a 31-member education advisory panel to function during the transition period. -
Appeals Court Decision: Pounding the Table?
Opinion -In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court developed a three-pronged test to determine whether a statute passes muster under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
One in Four U.S. Students Drops Out
Opinion -Although a recent Census Bureau publication has been widely reported as showing more Americans than ever graduating from high school, with gradually improving dropout rates nationwide, data from the U.S. Department of Education make it clear that the U.S. -
Climate change policy presents investment risks, opportunities
Opinion -The Kyoto Protocol was signed at the 3rd Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. -
Evergreener
Opinion -Three more major articles on evergreens and elevated carbon dioxide have appeared on the scene. -
Dredging up another PCB scare
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed that General Electric dredge the Hudson River to remove what are known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Under the plan, GE would have to spend an estimated $490 million. -
Africa Cries Out for Genetically Modified Foods
Opinion -Project 21, an African-American leadership network, has been joined by African leaders in urging that Africa be provided with the tools it needs to feed its people. -
Can Biotechnology Survive Bad Science, Media Hype, and Environmental Extremists?
Opinion -In August 1999, television viewers across the country tuned in to CBS Evening News heard correspondent Wyatt Andrews say, “This growing concern over biotechnology in the food chain is also reflected in a new study, the first field study to show that -
Government deceit uncovered at proposed Darby National Wildlife Refuge
Opinion -"I'm astounded at these FOIA documents—that three organizations think they can get together and partition an entire county." David Dhume Commissioner, Madison County LONDON, Ohio—Claims that the U.S.
