Opinion
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Dedicated to Coverdell, GOP Platform Promotes School Choice
Opinion -The Republican Party platform, approved at the start of the party's convention in Philadelphia, was dedicated at that time to the memory of the late Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia, who had been the principal congressional advocate of education -
Ten tips to help our planet . . . revisited
Opinion -On the final page of the calendar that Environmental Defense (formerly known as the Environmental Defense Fund) sends to millions of potential contributors, you’ll find a list of ten things you can do to protect the environment. -
Warming up to carbon dioxide
Opinion -A recent cascade of government reports portends biospheric doom and gloom once increased temperatures and higher carbon dioxide (CO2) levels establish themselves. -
Ocean depth and salinity can counter warming
Opinion -Gee, predicting the climate 100 years from now might be trickier than we thought. That would be an honest assessment of 25 years of trying to mathematically model how increasing greenhouse gases will affect our planet by the year 2100. -
National Assessment on Climate Change makes a poor first impression
Opinion -After much fanfare, the U.S. -
Blackouts loom while politicians dither
Opinion -Power blackouts plagued homeowners from Detroit to the Silicon Valley to the Pacific Northwest in mid-June, pre-saging what many experts believe could be the worst interruptions to electric service in years. -
EPA official pleads guilty in fraud case
Opinion -An EPA attorney accused of falsifying documents in a hotly disputed wetlands case in Wisconsin pleaded guilty June 27 to contempt of court. Marc M. Radell, 41, faces up to six months in prison and up to $5,000 in fines when he is sentenced in September. -
How Virginia beat EPA
Opinion -Those who would limit the power of the federal government often presume the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is too popular, too large, and too effective at public outreach and media manipulation to attack directly. -
Albert Gore and Straw Men
Opinion -Do you know anyone who argues there is a trade off between our economy and environment? Do you know anyone who believes dirty power plants are inevitable and we should accept them? -
Reality Check Foils Kyoto
Opinion -Remember those industry-sponsored ads about the Kyoto Protocol that said, “It’s not global and it won’t work”? Well, it looks like they “worked”! -
The suburbs are still misunderstood
Opinion -Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York, NY: North Point Press, 2000), 290 pp., $30. -
EPA retreats; media hardly notices
Opinion -Despite devoting thousands of page one headlines and countless feature stories to “soaring gasoline prices” and Clinton-Gore administration claims of price gouging by oil companies, the nation’s print media paid scant attention to -
Why regional climate forecasts are meaningless
Opinion -Regional assessments of future climate change. That first word, “regional,” should strike fear in the hearts of anyone who believes factual evidence is an essential prerequisite for any informed policy decision. -
Beacons of Hope for Education Reformers
Opinion -Even if it's easy to be free, what's your definition of freedom? and who the [expletive] are you, anyway, who the [expletive] are they, who the [expletive] am I to say, what the [expletive] is really going on? How did the cat get so fat? -
Violence in Schools Is Down
Opinion -Despite the widespread public perception of schools as unsafe and violent places, children in school or traveling to or from school are a third less likely to become victims of violence than when they are away from school, according to the Bureau of -
Heroes of Sound Science
Opinion -"Don't rock the boat" can be sound advice for a small craft plying rough seas. When the boat being rocked is the ship of state, scientists who question the captain's judgement could find themselves walking the plank. -
EPA’s Black Hole of Data
Opinion -On July 13, EPA published in the Federal Register its final rule on the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program, aimed at establishing "a process for making decisions in a common sense, cost effective way on how best to restore polluted waterbodies. . . . -
The oceans are fine: Worry about the media
Opinion -PBS ran a two-hour NOVA special on global warming during the week of Earth Day 2000. While much could be said about the program’s balance or lack thereof, the documentary is remarkable for another reason: PBS interviewed the wrong scientist. -
Supreme Court: Feds must pay for broken oil contracts
Opinion -In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 26 that the federal government must repay two oil companies, Marathon Oil Co. and Mobil Oil, for breach of contract for offshore oil leases. -
Cold warriors never die, they just turn green
Opinion -In a February interview with Environment & Climate News, Dr. Walter E. -
Read the Best of High School Writing
Opinion -Schools with low standards, teachers with low expectations, and students who dislike to read, cannot write, and are ignorant of history. We're all too familiar with the problem, but what can one person do about it? -
Boom in Alternative Teacher Certification
Opinion -Over the next ten years, a wave of veteran teacher retirements and a surge in student enrollments are expected to produce widespread, severe teacher shortages across the country. -
Are Florida’s Tests So Difficult?
Opinion -Here are sample questions provided by edutest.com for the eighth-grade Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in math. Edutest.com produces practice tests used by school systems for various standardized exams. -
Teacher Union Raises Dues to Fight Vouchers
Opinion -At the National Education Association's 79th Annual Representative Assembly in Chicago on July 3-6, the 2.