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Illiterate U.S. Workers Drive Jobs Overseas
Opinion -Even after hiring some 12,100 workers to crank up output of aircraft on its assembly lines last year, the Boeing Company still found itself experiencing production delays that will cost an estimated $2.6 billion. The problem? -
Principles of Reading Instruction
Opinion -According to the University of Oregon's Bonnie Grossen, seven teaching principles summarize the findings from $200 million of research conducted over 30 years by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 1. -
Administration Attempts End-Run on Kyoto Protocol
Opinion -Two months after the Kyoto Protocol was declared “dead on arrival” by a chorus of Congressional critics, opponents of the controversial global warming treaty now fear the administration is implementing the accord by regulatory fiat. -
Greenhouse Fears vs. Science
Opinion -The Clinton administration contends that the science of global warming is “settled,” and dangerous climate change from carbon dioxide produced by burning coal and oil is no longer a theory but a “fact. -
Improving Science Education
Opinion -As part of an ongoing effort to increase science literacy, the Bayer Corporation has gathered views on science education from principals, business leaders, teachers, parents and students in the report What America Thinks About Science Education Reform. -
Little Diversity in Teacher Corps
Opinion -While the nation’s corporate suites and student bodies have become more diverse and integrated over the past forty years, the U.S. teaching profession has moved in the opposite direction. In 1996, 90.7 percent of U.S. teachers were white, up from 88. -
New ESA Plan Would Lock up Over a Million Acres of Private Property in Texas
Opinion -A proposed “habitat conservation plan” (HCP) for Central Texas will lock up over one million acres of private property, warns Ike Sugg, a fellow in wildlife and land-use policy at the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. -
Outcome-Based Education: Remaking Society One Child at a Time
Opinion -Marguerite Anna McKenna "Peg" Luksik is well known to her neighbors in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where she's actively involved in community service work, including Mom's House, a comprehensive service network she founded for single parents and their -
Plan to Strengthen Congressional Review Advances
Opinion -Before Congress gets around to reforming the nation’s regulatory structure--which pessimists say could take an eternity--it may at least tidy up its own house. -
States as Full Partners: an exclusive interview with Robert E. Roberts
Opinion -Robert E. Roberts is the first full-time executive director of the Environmental Council of States, a position he has held since March 1995. ECOS is the national, nonpartisan, nonprofit association of state and territorial environmental commissioners. -
States: EPA Stifles Innovation and Opposes Flexibility
Opinion -State regulators testifying on November 4 before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, at a hearing titled “Federal-State Relationship: A Look into EPA Regulatory Reinvention Efforts,” were highly critical of EPA’s approach to -
Kansas Voucher Plan Would Save Tax Dollars
Opinion -School choice proponents in Kansas won a major victory when State Budget Director Gloria Timmer conceded that State Representative Kay O’Connor’s statewide voucher proposal would save millions of tax dollars in the first year and would require no -
Texas Business Group Embraces Vouchers
Opinion -The Texas state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business has embraced Putting Children First, a nonpartisan grassroots organization promoting school choice. -
Employers Say Students Lack Skills to Succeed
Opinion -When high school teachers send their graduates off to jobs in the real world, some 66 percent are confident that most or all of their students have the skills necessary to succeed at work. -
Black Children Being “Killed” in Public Schools
Opinion -Charging that the public school system has lowered its standards and is preparing minority students "for slow deaths," former Democratic Congressman Floyd Flake issued a strong call for educational choice when he visited Indianapolis on December 17. -
California Charter School Hit With ‘Poison Pill’
Opinion -If a California voter initiative favoring more charter schools qualifies in June for the November ballot, an award-winning charter school will have to close its doors on June 30 because of a “poison pill” provision inserted by the San Luis Coastal -
Chicago Firm Keeps Music in City Classrooms
Opinion -When school districts contemplate budget cuts, well-meaning board members often target instrumental music education as nothing more than a pleasant diversion from the more serious work of learning reading and math. -
Restoring the Urban Advantage with School Choice
Opinion -Now in the middle of his third term of office, John Norquist was elected the 37th Mayor of Milwaukee in 1988 after serving in Democratic leadership positions in both the state assembly and senate. -
American Education: Defaulting on a Sacred Debt
Opinion -“Education, whether it was the story telling of the village elders, the writing of medieval monks, the lessons of a lone teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, or lectures given behind the ivy-covered walls of a university, was the way that each generation -
Textbooks Mislead Teachers on Environmental Issues
Opinion -Although professional environmental educators have established nationwide standards of fairness and accuracy for evaluating environmental education materials, a new study finds that all but one of the university-level textbooks used at eight University -
High Pay, Few Students for Illinois Superintendents
Opinion -Although Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul G. -
1997 a Banner Year for School Choice
Opinion -Nineteen ninety-seven was a breakthrough year for market-oriented education reform. -
03/1998 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Illinois Maryland * Minnesota * Wisconsin CALIFORNIA Children Barred From Play Instead of organizing themselves into teams for boisterous pick-up games of soccer, tag, and other activities before the start of their -
How Textbooks Mislead Teachers
Opinion -Dr. Michael Sanera gives the following examples of how environmental teaching texts used in university-level courses in Wisconsin provide misleading information to prospective teachers about various environmental issues.
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