Opinion
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I Was Cyberstalked by My Teacher
Opinion -For three years, a regularly updated Web site describing me as a "psycho" and my late mother as a "perverted drug addict” was available on the Internet. Another high school prank, maintained by a bullying classmate? Unfortunately not. -
Educate New Mexico Celebrates 10 Years
Opinion -A scholarship-granting organization that helps children attend the school of their family’s choice across New Mexico celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 1. -
Study: Alternative Teacher Certification Benefits Students
Opinion -A new national report credits alternative teacher certification programs for effectively filling teacher shortages. -
Physicians: Increased Government Control Is Not Health Care ‘Reform’
Opinion -While President Barack Obama and his health care overhaul allies assert "most doctors and nurses support reform," poll results from Sermo, an online physicians community, suggest otherwise. -
Governor Seeks to Loosen Limits on Massachusetts Charter Schools
Opinion -Massachusetts education reformers are hoping federal incentive funds will move state lawmakers to remove limits on charter schools, but they are prepared to take their case to the ballot box if necessary. -
DC Scholarship Cuts Protested
Opinion -On the morning of September 8 school choice advocates and education leaders gathered in front of the U.S. Department of Education building in an act of civil disobedience to show support for the endangered DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. -
Decline in Detroit vs. Stability in Milwaukee
Opinion -Your two articles about the decline of Detroit and its public schools (“In One House,” Sept. 26, 2009, and “Detroit Coaxes Students,” Oct. 1, 2009) failed to mention how teacher unions helped encourage that decline. -
Administrators Using ARRA Funds to Plug Budget Holes, Survey Finds
Opinion -According to a new survey of school districts by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), districts have not been using federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to spur innovative school reform. -
2009 November Health Care News: (full text PDF)
Opinion -The November 2009 issue of Health Care News reports that citizen protests—including the September 12 March on Washington, which attracted hundreds of thousands of participants—have caused the White House to reconsider their support for a -
President Delays Nomination for Crucial Post
Opinion -Nine months into his term, President Barack Obama has yet to nominate anyone to lead the nation’s primary health care agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). -
School Choice Group Planning First Conference
Opinion -The Family: Forgotten Foundation of Education Reform?; The American Center for School Choice Holds Its Inaugural ConferenceNational Press Club will be site of unique debate on family choice in education as a moral and civic imperativeWASHINGTON, Oct. -
Health Overhaul Could Force Doctors to Quit
Opinion -A September 15 Investor’s Business Daily editorial revealed stunning poll data showing 45 percent of American physicians “would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement” if Congress passes President Barack -
Health Care Reform Should Begin with Ending Fraud
Opinion -During his September 9 primetime address, President Barack Obama said health care in America is “a system that is currently full of waste and abuse” where “too much of the hard-earned savings and tax dollars we spend on health care -
Taking Heat for Health Care Reform
Opinion -Peter Fotos, Director of Government Relations for the Heartland Instititue, was the target of vitriol from many audience members Oct. 8 at the Chicago History Museum, which presented a panel on reforming health care. -
Government-Centered Health Care Overhaul Bound to Fail
Opinion -Why is Washington having so much trouble reforming health care? And why, if Congress passes a major overhaul, are the problems of cost, quality, and access almost certain to get worse?Answer: Because Washington doesn’t understand health care. -
Census Bureau Uninsured Numbers Raise Questions
Opinion -The U.S. Census Bureau released new statistics on the number of uninsured Americans in its annual report on September 10, sparking discussion of what the statistics mean and some surprising information about the incomes of the uninsured. -
California Teachers Union Questions Need to Race to the Top
Opinion -California teachers union officials are questioning whether Race to the Top dollars are worth the reforms it takes to get them. -
Medicare Reimbursement Cap Called Unlikely to Stop Fraud
Opinion -Responding to serious Medicare fraud and corruption in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, where five doctors from one clinic were found guilty of racketeering over the past three years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing a -
Patients Accept Incentives for Improvement
Opinion -A review of the first two years of West Virginia’s alternative Medicaid program shows some positive results for patients willing to accept incentives to improve their health through personal action. -
California Interdistrict Choice Program Revived
Opinion -A popular public school choice program in California will continue until at least 2016, after lawmakers voted to reinstate and expand the state’s 17-year-old “district of choice” policy, which had expired in July. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #8-19
Opinion -Photo FinishedA U.K. photographer was ordered to reimburse $2,000 U.S. to a couple whose wedding photos he botched.He took 400 photos, but only 20 were acceptable. -
Health Care Co-op Plan Raises More Questions
Opinion -Facing criticisms of its proposed public option plan, the White House announced in mid-August President Barack Obama is open to a government-chartered cooperative approach. -
Value of Prevention as a Cost-Cutter Doubted
Opinion -While President Barack Obama has repeatedly touted prevention as a cost-cutting measure and a key element of his health care reform plan, funding preventive health care does not appear to lower costs, according to Sally Pipes, author of Top Ten Myths of -
Pay-for-Performance Study Results Disputed
Opinion -Hospitals included in a Medicare pilot project linking payments to government evaluations of the quality of care provided to patients saw sharp decreases in the number of people who died from heart attacks.
