Opinion
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Troubled Districts Face Takeover . . . By Private Firms
Opinion -While it's relatively easy for state policy makers to identify a failing school district and then take it over, legislators around the country are beginning to realize it's another matter entirely to turn the performance of that district around. -
04/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Connecticut * Florida * Georgia * Indiana * Kansas * Kentucky Maryland * Michigan * Missouri * New Hampshire * New Jersey * New Mexico New York * Pennsylvania * South Carolina * South Dakota * Utah Vermont * Virginia * -
Another row to hoe
Opinion -Hundreds of studies each year find that most plants produce more fruit, seem more resistant to environmental stresses, and use water more efficiently in a world of higher atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). -
Competition Necessary for Sustainable School Reform
Opinion -The estimated $360 billion U.S. K-12 education market makes up almost 10 percent of GDP, the second largest sector after health care. -
Eight positive environmental trends
Opinion -If present global demographic trends continue, the world population is likely to top out at 7.5 billion people in 2040 and begin to decline. Global life expectancy rose from an average of 46 years in 1950 to over 64 years today. -
Environment issues: Where the candidates stand
Opinion -While the leading Presidential candidates haven’t said a great deal about their positions on such key environment issues as global warming and private property protections, the early primaries and caucuses have forced them to tip their hands at least a -
EPA Web site shut down
Opinion -Late on the night of Wednesday, February 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shut down its public Web site. -
McCain Takes On Teacher Unions
Opinion -In a major education speech in Spartanburg, South Carolina on February 10, Republican presidential candidate John McCain renewed his call for a massive national voucher experiment, and then delivered a stinging attack against the teacher unions and -
Montreal delegates approve biosafety protocol language
Opinion -At the recent U.N.-sponsored biotechnology meeting in Montreal, delegates from 130 countries approved language for a “biosafety protocol” that would allow countries to stop or restrict imports of genetically modified agricultural products. -
Parents Can’t Get Enough of Vouchers
Opinion -Sophisticated statistical techniques aren't needed to prove that parents of Cleveland voucher students are overwhelmingly satisfied with their children's new schools. -
Scholarship Fund Gives Teachers a Voice
Opinion -When the Children's Scholarship Fund offered half-cost tuition vouchers for children in low-income families to go to private schools, it provided megaphone amplification to the voices of over one million parents and children around the country who were -
Subsidizing Disaster
Opinion -The Clinton administration, hard at work to avert the horrors of global warming and urban sprawl, also has been busy passing out disaster relief money like it was campaign literature. -
The Sulfate Hypothesis Disproved
Opinion -You know the federal climate drill: No, it didn’t warm up as much as we said it would and the reason is that another emission--sulfate aerosols--is “hiding” it. -
The unappreciated optimist
Opinion -Ronald Bailey is an environmental journalist with a commitment to sound science. He is science correspondent for Reason magazine and the author of several books, including: Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse (St. -
Tree-Mendous!
Opinion -Forests cover 27 percent of the total land area of the Earth, and they contain 60 percent of the carbon stored in the terrestrial biosphere. -
Who Chooses?
Opinion -One of the favorite arguments raised by voucher opponents in an attempt to show the supposed unfairness of school choice is the question, "Who chooses? -
Worshipping Gaia
Opinion -Although a federal court recently dismissed a suit brought against the Forest Service and environmentalists for creating a state-sponsored religion in the form of “deep Ecology,” there is substantial reason to believe that either the court -
AOL-Time Warner Merger Spells End of Forced Access Campaign
Opinion -The biggest beneficiaries America On-Line's merger with Time Warner may be consumers and computer users who don't use AOL, read Time, or watch Warner Brothers cartoons. -
For the Sake of Consumers, Allow AT&T/MediaOne Merger to Proceed at Once
Opinion -Several consumer organizations recently filed a formal request with the FCC and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division to block the acquisition of MediaOne by AT&T Corp. -
Cheating Is Lying
Opinion -Cheating by students is on the rise, with students taking their cues from adult attitudes, says Michael Josephson, who heads California's Josephson Institute for Ethics. -
‘Accountable’ Public Schools Squander Funds
Opinion -When an Ohio state audit recently revealed that a voucher school in Cleveland had bilked the state out of more than $85,000, state legislators proposed passing a law to prevent any reoccurrence of such incidents. -
Federal Agency Not Following Federal Law
Opinion -Frustrated at the Bureau of Indian Affairs' lack of progress in carrying out its responsibility to bring its schools into compliance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, lawyers with the Native American Protection and Advocacy -
What About the Children? an interview with John E. Berthoud
Opinion -If the "New Unionism" did mean something--if it wasn't just a lot of rhetoric coming from a big public relations firm--then you might expect to see an organization that now was a little more interested in qualitative reforms rather than just the same -
Can Americans Trust Their National Report Card?
Opinion -Testing data tumble out of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the so-called “Nation's Report Card,” with great regularity. But can the numbers always be trusted?