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The Empire Strikes Back
Opinion -The public education "empire" is striking back on several fronts, launching a broad counterattack to fend off threats to its exclusive $300+ billion franchise for delivering K-12 education to America's 50 million schoolchildren. -
Girls Are Not Shortchanged by Schools
Opinion -Most people take it for granted that "schools shortchange girls. -
Credibility Gap Grows Wider in NYC Schools
Opinion -It all began in June 1998, when New York City Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew “found” $63 million in his supposedly cash-strapped budget, allowing him to prevent an expected $1,000 a year cut in teacher salaries. -
“The More Choices We Have, the Better Off We’re Going to Be”
Opinion -As Arizona's State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Lisa Graham Keegan serves as CEO of the State Board of Education and oversees the $2 billion budget of the Arizona Department of Education. -
Focus on the Dream
Opinion -In the 35 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
NYC Schools Get Failing Grade from Business Leaders
Opinion -Whatever other skills students can thank their New York City public school teachers for, math isn't one of them, according to a recent Public Agenda survey of the city's business leaders. -
Gallup Poll Shows Lower Ratings for Public Schools
Opinion -An annual public opinion poll reveals that while fewer Americans than ever before would award the nation's public schools an A or B grade, more are beginning to favor taxpayer-funded access to the education alternative provided by private and -
11/1998 News Briefs
Opinion -Study Deflates Risk of Second-Hand Smoke A 10-year study of European smoking recently released concluded that the risk of second-hand smoke is far less than previously asserted, and is nonexistent for children. -
DOE Unit Seeks $64 Billion Hit to US Economy
Opinion -The impact on the US economy of meeting the Kyoto mandates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is far greater than asserted by the Clinton administration or partisans of the climate-change treaty, a new forecast by an independent government agency -
Shooting a Grizzly in Self-Defense
Opinion -Created by Congress in 1973 to protect imperiled animal and plant species, the Endangered Species Act remains a well intentioned but confusing law that leaves environmentalists and developers baffled. -
How Alton Jones Foundation Switched from Art and Culture to Radical Green
Opinion -The metamorphosis of the W. Alton Jones Foundation has transformed the 54-year-old charity from supporting the arts and culture to warning of environmental Armageddon. And because of its new mission statement, Americans now are saddled with an “ ... -
Overly Optimistic Outlook Drives White House Model
Opinion -Citing several flaws in the Clinton administration's assessment of the impact of the Kyoto climate-change treaty, a new study by an outside consulting firm argues that the annual costs to the U.S. -
Kyoto Pact Goes Where Scientists Fear to Tread
Opinion -Proponents of the Kyoto treaty on climate change have failed in their basic responsibility: To prove, based on present knowledge, that the benefits of implementing the treaty outweigh its costs, a prominent free-market environmentalist contends. -
New Data Cools Global Warming Alarmists
Opinion -The Clinton Administration is dodging more than just economic reality when it comes to activist efforts to impose mandatory emissions curbs on industrialized nations via the Kyoto treaty on climate change. -
New Urban Planners Can’t Define Suburban Sprawl, But They Hate It When They See It: an exclusive interview with Sam Staley
Opinion -“Stop suburban sprawl” is fast becoming the rallying cry of central planners, command-and-control regulators and a growing number of elected legislators. What’s remarkable is that “suburban sprawl” has no universally accepted definition. -
Aflatoxins and Furfural
Opinion -Each year, as we prepare for the holidays and their attendant feasting, we find ourselves awash in warnings about our food supply. -
Two Peas in a Pod
Opinion -The Sierra Club and trial lawyers have a great deal more in common than many people realize. Both have a huge financial stake in seeing to it that legal reform fails. As a result, both also have the same political enemies. -
CSF Partner Cities
Opinion -To date, 38 of 100 cities have been selected as partners by the Children's Scholarship Fund, with selection based on several factors, including local need, availability of matching funds, and capacity within the existing private and parochial schools. -
Spurious “Racist” Attack Angers Black Bishop
Opinion -A black minister cried shame on the leaders of African-American groups opposed to school vouchers, urging them to argue the merits of their case rather than lower themselves to the status of "racial mudslinger[s]. -
Approved Algebra Textbooks Flunk Review
Opinion -When a team of math professionals was asked to rate twelve introductory algebra textbooks approved for use in Texas schools, only four of the texts received better than a C grade and one was flunked. -
Midwest Gets Stuck with Tab for Northeast NOx Emissions
Opinion -How did you spend the fall? Raking leaves? Winterizing? I spent it watching health scares unravel. Meanwhile, EPA steamrolled over a whole new stretch of science. Let’s start there. -
All Pain and No Gain
Opinion -Saying the Kyoto Protocol on global warming is “all pain and no gain,” the chairman of a key congressional subcommittee warned that the yet-to-be ratified treaty “could significantly harm our economy and standard of living. -
Why Recycling Programs Fail to Meet Expectations
Opinion -Recycling programs, which began 10 years ago with high hopes of addressing the nation’s solid-waste problem, have failed to live up to expectations for profitability and consumer acceptance. -
Home Schooling Wins Acceptance
Opinion -When public school teacher David Guterson published his book, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, in 1992, homeschoolers numbered just 300,000, and public reaction was decidedly negative. Now, with homeschoolers numbering an estimated 1.
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