Opinion
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Parents Don’t Want More Day Care
Opinion -A new Public Agenda survey released in August refutes the notion that parents of very young children are calling for more help with day care from government or from employers. -
Barriers to Teacher-Entrepreneurs
Opinion -Even after creating and running Lane Tutoring Services in Oregon for a number of years, Joshua Hirschstein still thinks of himself primarily as a teacher. He’s only now beginning to recognize he's an entrepreneur, too. -
Warning: Your School Safety Plan May Fail
Opinion -Having a school safety and crisis response plan (SSCRP) in place may not be enough: The plan could be inadequate, or might actually fail upon implementation. How can you know? -
Opinion Poll Update
Opinion -Vouchers Find Overwhelming Support in New York City New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he favors school vouchers to allow parents to choose their child's school. -
Next Big Killer App: Education
Opinion -Earlier this year, Merrill Lynch's Global Growth Group in San Francisco published a 355-page in-depth report titled The Knowledge Web, an analysis of how the Internet is catalyzing change in the $2.2 trillion knowledge enterprise industry. -
Long-Term Educational Progress Modest At Best
Opinion -No one organized a tickertape parade when the latest results from an ongoing assessment of the nation's long-term progress in K-12 education were released on August 24. In fact, the best thing U.S. Education Secretary Richard W. -
10/2000 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Arkansas * California * Colorado * Florida * Maryland Minnesota * Nevada * Ohio * Oklahoma * Virginia ARKANSAS Alliance Bemoans 20+ Years of Low Achievement By all measures of educational achievement, Arkansas' education system is bad; it's -
National School Safety Contest Draws Praise, Seeks Entries
Opinion -Child trauma specialists say they expect SafeSchoolsWeek.com's national school safety poster contest to shed light on students' feelings about school violence. -
Lieberman Renounces Vouchers for VP Spot
Opinion -Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut), who in the past has bucked Democratic Party ideology to support school vouchers and the ending of racial preference programs, agreed to maintain silence on his unorthodox views when he accepted Vice President -
NAEP Trend Lines May Disappear Altogether
Opinion -Growing inconsistencies in how disabled and Limited English Proficient (LEP) students are either accommodated or excluded from NAEP testing may soon make it impossible to compare NAEP test data across states. -
Seven Principles of Good Government: Gary E. Johnson
Opinion -1. Become reality-driven. Don't kid yourself or others. Find out what's what and base your decisions and actions on that. 2. Always be honest and tell the truth. -
Hawaii Sierra Club sues over tourism
Opinion -“Overcrowded beaches, strained natural resources, clogged roadways, and overburdened natural areas---these are the tangible effects of increasing visitor arrivals,” said Jeff Mikulina, director of the Hawaii chapter of the Sierra Club, which has filed -
Climate models: Cannot explain reality, much less predict future
Opinion -There is no possibility that the new method can cause any mistake. It is likely that the mistake stemmed from a mistranscription or was committed by the computers who truncated fractions too much in their calculations. -
Roadless area rule won’t achieve forest diversity
Opinion -The Forest Service’s draft roadless area regulation could harm the nation’s forests and fails to look at alternatives that might better address the diversity of the forests, according to a public interest comment submitted to the agency by -
Poll: More Parents Want Out of Public Schools
Opinion -The latest results from an ongoing national public opinion poll reveal that an increasing number of parents appear to have given up on reforming the existing public school system from within. -
Clinton Mandates Multilingual U.S.
Opinion -In an exclusive August 24 WorldNetDaily story, John E. -
A call to arms: an interview with John Carlisle
Opinion -John Carlisle is director of the Environmental Policy Task Force at the National Center for Public Policy Research, headquartered in Washington, DC. -
Heat Wave Report Clouded by Global Warming Agenda
Opinion -This sounds bad: “Over the past 50 years, the number of [high heat index] days has doubled. The incidence of extended heat waves (four consecutive days of high heat stress) has nearly tripled. -
Interior grows impatient with park pollution efforts
Opinion -In an August 22 letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, an official at the Department of Interior asked EPA to develop new regulations designed specifically to protect air quality in the National Park System. -
Anti-Plastic Agenda: Health Care with Harm
Opinion -If your child were critically ill, you’d demand the best medical treatment possible. You’d call not only for the best doctors, but for the best medical technology. -
EdVentures 2000: Teachers as Entrepreneurs
Opinion -Almost all of the discussion of school choice is focused on parents being free to make a choice of schools and principals being free to make a choice of teachers for their schools. -
Test Scores Show Failure of Bilingual Ed
Opinion -Bilingual education reform may have aced its most importance test to date when results for English learners on the Stanford 9 test were released earlier this month. -
Improving public access to existing public lands
Opinion -As Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia, I was presented with many opportunities to guide government policies. Some of those opportunities proved to be difficult challenges, while others were easy decisions to make. -
Not in Kansas anymore? EPA’s pessimistic wheat forecasts
Opinion -From time to time, we’ve looked at some of EPA's new “State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kits,” released this year as a public service.
