Opinion
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The moistening of planet Earth
Opinion -General circulation models don’t even scratch the surface when it comes to simulating climate. And we mean that literally. Most models fail to properly account for moisture in the top portions of the soil. -
The chickens are in the roost
Opinion -Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson first noticed, last spring, that important regions of the United States are short of electricity capacity. This was Big News around the country. It hit the major network newscasts and all the major newspapers. -
Test Your Environment Literacy
Opinion -The following three questions come from Roper Starch Worldwide, The Eighth Annual National Report Card on Environmental Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behavior, December 1999. 1. How is most of the electricity in the U.S. generated? a. -
Double Standard on School Choice
Opinion -Do Members of Congress practice what they preach about school choice? -
Court Upholds Parental Rights
Opinion -When the month of June 2000 opened, it was celebrated by school choice advocates as the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Pierce v. Society of Sisters decision, which affirmed the right of parents to direct the education of their children. -
Summer Reading Guide
Opinion -A Guide to Smart Growth : Shattering Myths, Providing Solutions by Jane S. Shaw and Ronald D. Utt The Heritage Foundation * April 21, 2000 * 16 pp. Amazon.com price $12. -
Funding phantom forts
Opinion -The Northwest Territory of the Great Lakes National Heritage Area Act of 1999, introduced in Congress last year by Rep. -
Outperforming EPA
Opinion -Contrary to popular opinion, America's focus on solving environment problems originated at the state and local level, not in Washington. -
Recommended Books on Free-Market Environmentalism
Opinion -Top Picks Six books, two of them brand new and three dating back as far as 1993, deliver a complete overview of environment issues from a sound science, market-based perspective. -
High-sticking the Senate
Opinion -At a Senate hearing last spring, what was left out of the testimony was perhaps more telling than what was heard. On May 17, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, chaired by Sen. -
Arizona Bilingual Reform Initiative Gains Momentum
Opinion -Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Arizona), who has repeatedly championed bilingual education reform in the U.S. Congress, returned home last month to give his endorsement to a ballot initiative that would end bilingual education in Arizona. -
Who Chooses?
Opinion -Public school advocates demand that voucher schools take all students who apply so they cannot "skim the cream. -
Appeals Court Reviews Cleveland Vouchers
Opinion -CINCINNATI -- Over 3,800 children currently enrolled in voucher schools in Cleveland can only wait as the U.S. -
SRN Just the Facts: Summer Reading
Opinion -School Reform News' contributing editors and friends helped compile this list of recommended books for summer reading. Top Pick Joseph P. -
Adventus Releases New Music Instruction Bundle
Opinion -Adventus Inc., a supplier of innovative technology for music education, has announced the release of its Piano Suite version 2.1, a set of hardware and software tools designed to enhance instruction in an instrumental or general music program. -
What Voucher Supporters Predicted
Opinion -Governor Jeb Bush believed the A+ Program would help direct education resources to problem areas, and that "it will improve public schools. -
From New York to California, Americans Support Vouchers
Opinion -According to University of Rochester economist Eric Hanushek, vouchers would "allow parents to vote on performance by choosing schools. -
New Standards Proposed for Teacher Preparation
Opinion -WASHINGTON -- The proponents of a national system of preparing and licensing teachers for America's K-12 classrooms spared no hyperbole in a recent news conference here, unveiling revised National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) -
The Lemon Test
Opinion -In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court established a three-pronged test to determine whether a law violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bars any law "respecting an establishment of religion." 1. -
School Choice Moves Forward in Indiana
Opinion -NEW HARMONY, IN--The movement to achieve increased choice in education for Indiana parents took a significant step forward in late May, when more than 150 parents, state and community leaders, and school choice activists gathered at a symposium in New -
Making more monuments
Opinion -President Clinton is in the midst of a major push to name national monuments during his final year in office. -
EPA tries to hogtie Wyoming
Opinion -We hear from EPA’s “State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kit” that Wyoming’s temperatures could rise by 11°F in winter over the next 100 years, with devastating consequences. -
Voucher Threat Lifts Florida Schools
Opinion -The sharp improvement in student achievement at Florida's 78 failing public schools has shattered claims that competition does not work in education, and that private school vouchers will hurt public schools and the students "left behind" in them. -
Teacher Certification: Guarantee or Joke?
Opinion -"[T]eacher certification procedures are a joke! . . . [They] don’t distinguish between those who can and those who cannot teach. They’re a series of bureaucratic routines, which some say serve only to keep talented people out of teaching.