WASHINGTON, DC — American middle schools have become the places "where academic achievement goes to die." So says Cheri Pierson Yecke, Florida's K-12 Education Chancellor and author of the new Fordham Institute report that highlights the touchy-feely middle school.
A new study suggests a link between health-insurance costs and unemployment. Since the North Carolina legislature has hiked the price of insurance through mandated benefits, they deserve some blame.
Lawmakers have decided that pseudoephedrine, sold under the brand name Sudafed, presents a danger to the public because it can be converted to methamphetamine. What has happened with Sudafed is truly a tale of the unintended consequences of the 'war on drugs,' creating secondary consequences in other markets.
It is routinely asserted that the future of North Carolina’s economy is significantly dependent on maximizing the number of students going off to college. This fallacy is based on faulty premises.
More than four hundred years ago, English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon coined the oft-repeated phrase, "Knowledge is power." In many cases, knowledge can, and does, empower people. As citizens arm themselves with information, they are often galvanized into action. But what happens when groups of people suffer from a lack of knowledge, or − even worse − deny the facts?
Japan’s Junichiro Koizumi just won a strong electoral mandate for his policies of privatizing government programs, cutting taxes, reforming entitlements, and staying the course in Iraq. Of course, he's a Liberal Democrat.
There really are two Americas: those who take advantage of a tragic situation and those who cherish freedom and get to work.
President Bush is up to his neck in political hot potatoes. He needs to secure the homeland and define our mission in Iraq.
What do we have a national government to do? There are as many answers as there are ambitious politicians and confused voters — and that’s the problem.
The pharmaceutical industry could shoulder almost half of the $10 billion in anticipated cuts to Medicaid, if Congress heeds the advice of a panel charged with finding ways to rein in spending on the joint federal-state program.
What can an artist possibly do when faced with a tragedy like September 11? Here is the answer by a Polish composer who calls himself "indiscriminately pro-American," Wojciech Kilar.
