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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. -
Chamber of horrors
Opinion -The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held its Environmental Summit 2000 on April 7 in Washington, DC. -
Vouchers Motivate Florida Educators
Opinion -Despite the cloud hung over it by litigation, Florida's fledgling A-Plus program already is yielding a mountain of evidence that vouchers--far from harming public schools, as critics claim--have an uplifting effect on low-performing public schools. -
WebED Aims to Revolutionize Teacher Development
Opinion -WebED, Inc., an online education company, provides K-12 educators, administrators, and school personnel with the opportunity to earn professional development credit through Internet-based courses. -
A Recipe for Making Up The Law
Opinion -Do U.S. Supreme Court Justices always think logically? Not according to school choice opponents who challenged Illinois' 1999 education tax credit law on behalf of Barbara B. Toney and others. -
Congress Stiffs School Boards on Special Ed
Opinion -At a recent National Governors' Association meeting at the White House, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge called on President Clinton to increase his administration's efforts to help the nation's special-needs children. -
Court: EPA may regulate water quality on navigable rivers
Opinion -The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has ruled that the Clean Water Act of 1972 gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to set water-quality standards for every navigable river in America. -
EPA rule latest threat to farms and forests
Opinion -Farmers and foresters across the country are facing the biggest threat to their existence since the "dust bowl" of the 1930s laid waste to hundreds of thousands of acres of prime farmland.
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