Opinion
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Boston biotech meeting attracts supporters, protestors
Opinion -Bio2000, a week-long conference for the international biotechnology industry, ended March 31 after setting attendance records for both conferees and protestors. Nearly 8,000 industry representatives attended the Boston convention. -
Congress debates CAFE moratorium again
Opinion -It has become an annual rite of summer. Each year since 1995, Congress has voted to extend a one-year moratorium on expenditures to change car and truck fuel economy standards, effectively freezing the standards at 27. -
Court rejects EPA chloroform rule
Opinion -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on March 31 that the U.S. -
Coalition of biotech companies launches educational campaign
Opinion -The biotechnology industry has begun a three-year, $50 million program to educate consumers about the safety and benefits of bioengineered foods. -
Environmental Education: Ripe for Reform
Opinion -It’s time to separate education and advocacy. We don’t mean discouraging environmentalists or business representatives from speaking in the classroom. -
Quick action may have stalled ecoterrorists
Opinion -When Congressman George Radanovich (R-California) received an email urging Earth Liberation Front (ELF) members to wage “militant demonstrations targeting U.S. -
Where has all the carbon gone?
Opinion -With or without a Kyoto Protocol, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions no doubt will continue to rise. -
U.S. health report quells fears
Opinion -The long-awaited results of the U.S. National Assessment of Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change are beginning to see the light of day. -
Enviro groups sued for false advertising
Opinion -On April 17, Western Fuels Association Inc. filed suit in Wyoming federal district court against six anti-coal environmentalist groups, alleging the groups’ “Global warming -- how will it end? -
Bilingual Education Being Sidelined
Opinion -After 30 years and over $4 billion spent on federal bilingual education programs, the evidence has become overwhelming: Bilingual education doesn't work, and in fact does a terrible disservice to Hispanic and other language-minority young people in our -
Low Literacy = High Waste in Education
Opinion -In the call for schools to be held accountable for results, one measure trumps all others: If public schools simply taught all children to read and write, they would pass any accountability test with flying colors. -
Recovering from a Natural Disaster
Opinion -On August 17 last year, a devastating earthquake in Turkey killed nearly 18,000 people. -
Dem Education Plan: Streamlining and Strings
Opinion -Despite talk of reform and calls for accountability as the U.S. -
Challenge to Illinois Tax Credit Dismissed
Opinion -On April 21, Judge Thomas Appleton of the Sangamon County Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Illinois Education Association and various other organizations that claimed a 1999 tax credit law violated four provisions of the Illinois -
Judge Rules Florida Vouchers Can Continue
Opinion -The same judge who in March had ruled that Florida's A+ Plan was unconstitutional in April rejected a request from the teacher unions to close the program until the Court of Appeals rules this summer. -
Key to Literacy: Phonics and Phonemes
Opinion -After reviewing more than 30 years of research on how children learn to read, a national panel recently concluded that, to be effective, reading instruction must include teaching word sounds, phonics, reading for fluency, and reading for comprehension. -
School Boards, Teacher Unions Share Anti-Voucher Agenda
Opinion -Over 9,000 delegates representing some 95,000 local school board members attended the National School Boards Association conference in Orlando on April 1-4. Just 14 of them showed up for the Federal Lobbying Update session. -
School Voucher Politics Heating Up in Michigan
Opinion -A school voucher initiative on the November 2000 ballot in Michigan has attracted opposition from the teacher unions and other anti-voucher groups, as was expected, but the measure also has provoked a surprisingly high level of heated friction among -
06/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * California * Kentucky * Maine * Massachusetts * Michigan Nebraska * New York * Pennsylvania * Utah * Virginia * Washington ARIZONA All Teachers Fingerprinted Arizona Governor Jane Hull signed a bill on April 10 that requires all -
SALT to Sponsor Conference on Education Technology
Opinion -The Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT®), in cooperation with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), is offering Education Technology 2000 on July 24-26, 2000 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, -
The Trouble with Ozone
Opinion -O’er the earth there comes a bloom; Sunny light for sullen gloom; Warm perfume for vapour cold-- I smell the rose above the mould! --Thomas Hood, Farewell, Life Sometimes, quality trumps quantity. -
American Hubris and Mongolian Cold
Opinion -Sometimes it is embarrassing how self-absorbed the power elites in the United States can be. Now is one of those times. -
Science panel affirms safety of biotech foods
Opinion -There is no “evidence suggesting that foods on the market today are unsafe to eat as a result of genetic modification,” concluded a report released by the National Academy of Sciences on April 5, 2000. -
Rational environmental arguments lost on many voters
Opinion -We are sure most of you who read these pages are regularly baffled by how poorly rational arguments on environmental issues fare in the public forum.