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  • Summer Reading Guide

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    A Guide to Smart Growth : Shattering Myths, Providing Solutions by Jane S. Shaw and Ronald D. Utt The Heritage Foundation * April 21, 2000 * 16 pp. Amazon.com price $12.
  • Funding phantom forts

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    The Northwest Territory of the Great Lakes National Heritage Area Act of 1999, introduced in Congress last year by Rep.
  • Outperforming EPA

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    Contrary to popular opinion, America's focus on solving environment problems originated at the state and local level, not in Washington.
  • Recommended Books on Free-Market Environmentalism

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    Top Picks Six books, two of them brand new and three dating back as far as 1993, deliver a complete overview of environment issues from a sound science, market-based perspective.
  • High-sticking the Senate

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    At a Senate hearing last spring, what was left out of the testimony was perhaps more telling than what was heard. On May 17, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, chaired by Sen.
  • Arizona Bilingual Reform Initiative Gains Momentum

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Arizona), who has repeatedly championed bilingual education reform in the U.S. Congress, returned home last month to give his endorsement to a ballot initiative that would end bilingual education in Arizona.
  • Who Chooses?

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    Public school advocates demand that voucher schools take all students who apply so they cannot "skim the cream.
  • Appeals Court Reviews Cleveland Vouchers

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    CINCINNATI -- Over 3,800 children currently enrolled in voucher schools in Cleveland can only wait as the U.S.
  • SRN Just the Facts: Summer Reading

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    School Reform News' contributing editors and friends helped compile this list of recommended books for summer reading. Top Pick Joseph P.
  • Adventus Releases New Music Instruction Bundle

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    Adventus Inc., a supplier of innovative technology for music education, has announced the release of its Piano Suite version 2.1, a set of hardware and software tools designed to enhance instruction in an instrumental or general music program.
  • What Voucher Supporters Predicted

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    Governor Jeb Bush believed the A+ Program would help direct education resources to problem areas, and that "it will improve public schools.
  • From New York to California, Americans Support Vouchers

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    According to University of Rochester economist Eric Hanushek, vouchers would "allow parents to vote on performance by choosing schools.
  • New Standards Proposed for Teacher Preparation

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    WASHINGTON -- The proponents of a national system of preparing and licensing teachers for America's K-12 classrooms spared no hyperbole in a recent news conference here, unveiling revised National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
  • The Lemon Test

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court established a three-pronged test to determine whether a law violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bars any law "respecting an establishment of religion." 1.
  • School Choice Moves Forward in Indiana

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    NEW HARMONY, IN--The movement to achieve increased choice in education for Indiana parents took a significant step forward in late May, when more than 150 parents, state and community leaders, and school choice activists gathered at a symposium in New
  • Making more monuments

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    President Clinton is in the midst of a major push to name national monuments during his final year in office.
  • EPA tries to hogtie Wyoming

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    We hear from EPA’s “State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kit” that Wyoming’s temperatures could rise by 11°F in winter over the next 100 years, with devastating consequences.
  • Voucher Threat Lifts Florida Schools

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    The sharp improvement in student achievement at Florida's 78 failing public schools has shattered claims that competition does not work in education, and that private school vouchers will hurt public schools and the students "left behind" in them.
  • Teacher Certification: Guarantee or Joke?

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    "[T]eacher certification procedures are a joke! . . . [They] don’t distinguish between those who can and those who cannot teach. They’re a series of bureaucratic routines, which some say serve only to keep talented people out of teaching.
  • School Choice Arguments in Court

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments on the Cleveland school choice program in Cincinnati on June 20.
  • Let’s Do What’s Best for the Child: an interview with J.C. Watts Jr.

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    “We have to come to the table minus our egos and minus these ideological frames of mind that we get into and say, ‘Let's do what's best for the child.
  • High (latitude) anxiety

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    For the second time in the past four years, Polish climatologist Rajmund Przybylak has a put a chill on climate model projections of global warming temperature patterns.
  • Boys Camp jeopardized by new monument

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    “Our right to have a voice and take part in the decision making process is being completely circumvented,” despaired Rocky Leitzell, executive director of the R.M.
  • Where’s the science in environmental science?

    Published August 1, 2000
    Opinion -
    Environmental science is a growth industry everywhere . . . and nowhere more than in America’s schools.