Opinion
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Internet Encourages Development of School Communities
Opinion -With such community-building features as e-mail, calendars, bulletin boards, publishing tools, and class home pages, education portals on the Internet are hoping to encourage parents, students, and classroom teachers to share the task of education. -
Learning to Read with Phonics Software
Opinion -Until the mid-twentieth century, American schools taught youngsters to read using phonics, which formalizes the process by breaking down words into letters and their sounds. -
Milwaukee Celebrates 10 Years of School Choice
Opinion -The "My School, My Choice" dinner was planned for September 21 as an event to celebrate ten years of school choice in Milwaukee and to honor those who had made it possible. -
National Poll Shows a Majority For Vouchers
Opinion -"Do you agree or disagree that government vouchers used at a private school run by a religious organization violate the separation of church and state? -
Poll shows public doesn’t fear global warming
Opinion -Climate change? Fuggedaboudit. At least that’s the message that emerges from a survey the World Wildlife Fund took to register public opinion on global warming. -
PowerSchool Creates Online School Community
Opinion -For busy teachers and administrators, and for computer-savvy parents eager to become more involved in their children’s education, the Internet offers a wide range of information resources. -
Teachers Say Vouchers Improve Public Schools
Opinion -While it's part of the mantra of voucher opponents to claim vouchers harm public schools and do nothing for the children "left behind," a new survey of more than 750 randomly selected Florida public school teachers refutes that claim. -
Vouchers Lift Black Student Scores
Opinion -Just as the nation was absorbing Education Secretary Richard W. -
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Russell Joins Think Tank Board
Opinion -CHICAGO, IL October 25, 2000 – Robert E. Russell, Jr., president of Robert Russell & Associates, Inc., was elected to the Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute at its latest meeting. -
Environment and the 2000 election
Opinion -Ultimately, the importance of environment issues to the 2000 election may not be determined by “environmentalists” or more moderate conservationists—or even Democrats or Republicans. -
Chicago: Hardest hit by high gas prices, doesn’t need RFG
Opinion -The Chicago area, hardest hit by high gasoline prices when EPA forced it to switch to new Tier II reformulated gasoline this summer, should not be required to use oxygenated gasoline because it is in compliance with clean air standards. -
Medical journal defends DDT
Opinion -Two articles in the July 29 issue of The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, make a surprising and passionate case for DDT, the pesticide banned in the Western world in the 1970s. -
Popular termite pesticide withdrawn from U.S. market
Opinion -Dow AgroSciences has reached an agreement with EPA to voluntarily withdraw from the U.S. residential market its chlorpyrifos products, including the popular pesticide Dursban, a treatment for termites. -
A greenhouse pickle
Opinion -Each crisp, savory pickle at your table began its life as a mere cucumber, drawing nourishment from the carbon dioxide that is its lifeblood. How will the cucumber fare as CO2 and temperatures rise? -
News of Arctic warming nothing more than hot air
Opinion -The rhetoric is heating up out there. Item 1. Press Release, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 9, 2000, titled “Arctic temperatures warmest in last four centuries, study says.” Arctic temperatures in the late 20th century . . . -
Warming will torment transportation, British government warns
Opinion -Global warming will wreak havoc with Britain’s transportation systems, according to Anthony Astbury, business manager for the British Meteorological Office, who briefed the country’s Transportation Research Laboratory earlier this summer. -
EPA Must Pay Harassed Mill Owner
Opinion -A federal judge has invoked a rarely used law to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pay damages to a Massachusetts mill owner the agency harassed and pursued an investigation against, despite a lack of evidence. On August 1, U.S. -
Long-anticipated energy crisis: Has it arrived?
Opinion -The last 100 years are often referred to by historians as the “American Century,” due primarily to the country’s rise to world leadership and military dominance. -
Spring is springing earlier
Opinion -Poets, philosophers, and even regular Joes generally see the first blossoms of spring as a much-anticipated sign of renewal. Now it seems certain factors--some natural, some human-induced--are causing Spring to spring earlier. -
Is Greenland really melting?
Opinion -“Greenland is melting! Greenland is melting!” cried Chicken Little in a spate of press stories based on two articles in Science magazine. Apparently, C.L. -
Wildfires, warnings, women, and children
Opinion -“Mom, they’ve ordered us to evacuate. What do you want me to save from the house? -
Proposed wetlands rule assumes guilt until proven innocent
Opinion -The presumption of innocence, a pillar of American jurisprudence since the country's founding, will suffer a severe setback if a proposed EPA wetlands regulation is allowed to stand as written. -
Reporters Assess State Tests
Opinion -New York: Teacher Certification Test New York Times reporter Abby Goodnough recently related her experiences in taking New York State's main certification exam for teachers, who must score at least 220 of a possible 300 to pass.
