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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. -
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.
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