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Science Council Debunks Top Environment and Health Scares from 2013
Opinion -The American Council on Science and Health has identified its “Top 13 health scares of 2013,” with a majority of the false health scares catering to environmental activism. -
Swirling the Bowl: An Administration Goes Down the Drain
Opinion -If you accidentally dropped your most treasured piece of jewelry into the toilet just as you were flushing, you’d scream, you’d cry, and you might tell a sympathetic friend . . . unless you were just too embarrassed. -
Will High Retransmission Consent Fees Hamper a Successful Incentive Auction?
Opinion -In recent years, over-the-air broadcasters, under the current retransmission consent regime, have been able to exact increasingly higher fees for permitting Multichannel Video Program Distributors ("MVPDs"), such as cable and satellite operators, to -
Florida May Use Common Core Tests Despite Executive Order
Opinion -Florida may still use national Common Core tests even though Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order on Sept. 23 limiting the state’s involvement with them. -
Stop Denying Climate Science and Act! (before people realize it’s a scam)
Opinion -The full-court press is on. Alarmist scientists, politicians, pressure groups, newspapers, ministers, rabbis and bureaucrats want Americans to “stop stalling” on climate change. -
Reasons Behind the Apparent Divergence of Productivity and Compensation
Opinion -In some but not all industries, we can measure output; e.g., tons of this, cubic yards of that. By relating output to hours of labor, we have a measure of labor productivity. As measured by the U.S. -
Labor Productivity vs. Compensation
Opinion -In some but not all industries, we can measure output; e.g., tons of this, cubic yards of that. By relating output to hours of labor, we have a measure of labor productivity.As measured by the U.S. -
Essentially, a Hand Up
Opinion -I have heard several people over the years suggest some pretty crazy policy ideas related to the adoption of broadband, including one who suggested that if people will not adopt broadband in their house voluntarily that they might have to be forced to do -
‘Won’t Back Down’ Movie Features Parent Trigger, Championed by The Heartland Institute
Opinion -On Friday, the movie “Won’t Back Down” opens in more than 3,000 theaters nationwide. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis, the film is an inspiring story about how a single mother takes on the broken and corrupt public school system – and wins. -
Oil Speculators: A Force for Peace?
Opinion -White House polling must show how badly gas prices are hurting President Obama's approval numbers. Badly enough that he's even trying to ease up on attacking Iran. Here's Obama on the campaign trail: "The problem is . . . -
Best U.S. Schools Barely Compete with International Peers
Opinion -The highest-scoring U.S. school districts are mediocre compared to their international counterparts, reports a new study examining national and international student test scores. This finding contradicts widespread perceptions that wealthy, suburban U.S. -
Proposed Florida Business Tax Phase-out Draws Fire
Opinion -Only three states—Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming—have no corporate income tax, but Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott wants to add the Sunshine State to that select list. -
Media Advisory: NBC’s “Education Nation” Confuses More Federal Meddling for Real Reform
Opinion -NBC News this week is giving unprecedented televised attention to the crisis in the U.S. public education system. -
Former Senator Schmitt Outlines Constitutional Health Care Improvement For America
Opinion -Editorial -The current Administration and Congressional leadership, by word and deed, believe in overriding the separation of State and Federal powers embodied in the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. -
Privacy Remains an Issue in Latest Draft of Cybersecurity Bill
Opinion -A bill introduced in Congress this spring granting the president broad powers over the Internet in the event of a “cyber emergency” rang alarm bells among civil libertarians. -
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. -
This Is CNN: Abusing Copyright Law To End Embarrassment
Opinion -Tax Day this year was a great day for old-fashioned patriotism, but a bad day for television journalism—exemplified by CNN “reporter” Susan Roesgen. -
In Tutoring, As in Teaching, Structured Programs Work Best
Opinion -The Tutoring Revolution: Applying Research for Best Practices, Policy Implications, and Student Achievement Edward E. Gordon, Ronald R. Morgan, Charles J. -
Coming U.S. Workforce Unprepared for Knowledge Economy, Author Warns
Opinion -Review of The 2010 Meltdown: Solving the Impending Jobs Crisis Written by Edward E. Gordon (Praeger Publishers, 2005) 288 pages, $39.95, ISBN 0275984362 Edward E. -
Chicago Sports Upset: Student-Athletes Edge Out Peers Academically
Opinion -Good news about student athletes in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) was publicized in Mayor Richard M. Daley's "Principal for a Day" news conference October 27. -
Boston MATCH School Goes Beyond ‘No Excuses’
Opinion -Since its inception in 2000, the Media and Technology Charter High (MATCH) School in Boston has drawn its predominantly black and Hispanic students largely from the city's poorest demographic, and most of its students enter ninth grade achieving well -
Competition Would Improve U.S. Education
Opinion -Dear Editor: The Daily Herald hit a triple with its September 14 editorial about the continuing slippage of U.S. students in international performance rankings: First, the present system is not delivering quality education to all students. -
Are Tax Credits Really Not ‘Public Money’?
Opinion -Some education policy analysts say tuition tax credit programs such as Arizona's, which a federal district court judge on March 24 upheld as constitutional, are preferable to vouchers because they do not involve "public money" and are therefore less -
Defective Educational Philosophy Is Real Culprit in K-12 Education Failures
Opinion -Review of Doomed to Fail: The Built-in Defects of American Education by Paul A. Zoch Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004, 237 pages, ISBN 1-56663-567-5, $26.95 Paul A.
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