Opinion
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The Green’s Ear-ie Ad
Opinion -“Who plays God in the 21st century?” is the rhetorical title of a recent full-page advertisement in The New York Times attacking genetic engineering. -
Planting the seeds of misinformation
Opinion -The Food and Drug Administration has been holding hearings across the country on the safety of genetically engineered plants as food for humans. -
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Opinion -Ben & Jerry's ice cream has a reputation for being the most politically correct item in your freezer. For years the company has decried the dangers of even trace levels of "toxins" in food. -
Kyoto’s chilling effects: Can the United Nations dictate scientific outcome?
Opinion -The former head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which bills itself as the “consensus of scientists,” has finally made it official: If your research indicates global warming isn’t such a big -
Wheat keeps winning!
Opinion -Throughout the world, wheat greatly benefits from each new molecule of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere. -
School Choice in the Courts
Opinion -School choice issues increasingly are being fought in the courts, as parents seek better educational options for their children and as establishment forces seek to maintain the status quo. -
Advancing School Choice
Opinion -CHOOSING EQUALITY School Choice, and the Constitution, and Civil Society Joseph P. Viteritti, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C. (1999) Choosing Equality begins with a tribute to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. -
Incentives for Teachers Proliferate
Opinion -In Massachusetts, Boston University Chancellor John Silber, former chairman of the state Board of Education, recently proposed that the first $30,000 of the income of "highly qualified teachers" should be exempt from federal income tax. -
Choice Leaders Mourned
Opinion -Dr. Daniel D. McGarry, Scholar Scholar and parental choice advocate Dr. Daniel D. McGarry died on October 24, 1999 at his family's home in Laguna Beach, California. -
02/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arizona * Colorado * Connecticut * Illinois * Michigan * Montana New York * Ohio * South Carolina * Wisconsin ARIZONA Year-End Push for School Donations Public and private schools in Arizona launched campaigns to promote a state tax credit -
Bill introduced to control cormorants
Opinion -Congressmen John McHugh (R-New York) and Collin Peterson (DFL-Minnesota) introduced a bill on October 20 authorizing states to establish hunting seasons for double-crested cormorants. H.R. 3118 has been referred to the House Resources Committee. -
Democrats Shift Stand on School Choice
Opinion -A key Democrat Party group is calling for radical reforms to remedy the persistent failure of the existing public school monopoly to improve student achievement. -
Done in by DNR and a dune
Opinion -Since 1989, Jim Wickstra has been fighting the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to get compensation for their refusal to allow him to build a house on property he owns in Michigan's Muskegon County. -
Environmentalists and the new millennium
Opinion -Pundits, publications, and people on the street have all been, in one way or another, reviewing the last millennium. What concerns me is where environmentalists want the world to go in the new millennium: back to the future. -
Environmentalists refuse to see that the Earth is greening
Opinion -At Greening Earth Society (GES), we follow Yogi Berra’s dicta “You can observe a lot just by watching.” What we see makes us optimistic about our collective future. -
Implications of Judge Oliver’s Ruling
Opinion -Judge Solomon Oliver Jr.’s December 20, 1999, ruling on the Cleveland Scholarship Program apparently would give public schools the power to void future voucher programs by choosing not to participate in them. -
Judge Voids Cleveland Vouchers for Lack of Choice
Opinion -There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Joseph Heller's WWII: You could get out of flying more combat missions if you were crazy, but if you wanted to get out then you couldn't be crazy and so you had to keep flying missions. -
Larger Means less Efficient in School Districts
Opinion -While public school officials support the notion that "smaller is better" when it is applied to class or school sizes, the concept meets a much cooler reception when applied to reducing the size of school districts, according to a new study from the -
President: ‘It’s Not Their Money’
Opinion -The way federal officials view the swollen river of taxpayer dollars flowing through the nation's capital was captured in comments made by President Clinton on the South Grounds of the White House last November 8, before the education spending bill had -
U.K. to Privatize Failing Schools
Opinion -Private companies could take over as many as 10 percent of Great Britain's local school districts, according to remarks made at a conference late last year by Estelle Morris, School Standards Minister in the U.K. -
Union Chief Defends Teachers After 20/20 Expose’
Opinion -ABC News reporter John Stossel provoked the wrath of teacher union president Bob Chase after a recent 20/20 program concluded that more competition, rather than more money, was likely to improve government-run schools. -
What Makes a School Good?
Opinion -When newspaper food critics rate the quality of restaurants, they usually devote most of their efforts to judging the quality of the food that is served rather than comparing menu prices. -
Charter Schools Ahead of Curve on School Size
Opinion -U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley plugged for small schools in his recent back-to-school message. “We need to find ways to create small, supportive learning environments that give students a sense of connection to each other,” Riley said. -
A Salute to Clint Bolick
Opinion -Citizens for Education Freedom honored Clint Bolick, vice president and litigation director for the Institute for Justice, with the Educational Freedom Award at CEF's Fortieth Anniversary Gala Banquet in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 16, 1999.