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U.S. Students Show Slight Improvement in Math, Science Achievement
According to the annual Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), designed and coordinated by Boston College�s Lynch School of Education, ... (read more)

States� English Standards Still Need Improvement, Study Says
Twenty states earned As or Bs for their English instruction standards, according to a Thomas B. Fordham Foundation report published in January. While ... (read more)

Teacher Union News: Disputed Elections and Missing Funds
The Washington Teachers Union and United Teachers of Dade (UTD, Florida), currently under administration by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), ... (read more)

U.S. Girl Students Outperform Boys in Most Subjects, Study Finds
�Girls and young women still have a long way to go in gaining full educational equality,� says NOW President Kim Gandy. According to author and American ... (read more)

RAND Study Forecasts Problems Meeting National Reading Goals
U.S. students in grades 4-12 are not meeting state or national goals in reading achievement, a recently released RAND Corporation report warns. The authors ... (read more)

$5 Million Pension for Daschle?
Thirty-eight former senators and representatives from the 108th Congress qualify for taxpayer-funded pensions, with former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) leading ... (read more)

Illinois Contractors Fight Union-Friendly Order
An executive order issued in 2003 by Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich (D) blocks most construction contractors from bidding on state construction projects, ... (read more)

Verizon Exec Delivers Tough Message to Mayors on Telecom Taxes
Verizon Executive Vice President Tom Tauke on January 18 urged the U.S. Conference of Mayors, meeting in Washington, DC, to work with telecom companies ... (read more)

Majority Favors Private Accounts for Social Security, Cato/Zogby Poll Says
A majority of Americans believe younger workers should be allowed to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in individual accounts, according ... (read more)

Governors Talk Toll Road Privatization in Indiana and New Jersey
In Indiana, talk is in the air concerning the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road, which links Illinois and Ohio. In New Jersey, the 148-mile New Jersey Turnpike, ... (read more)

March 2005 Budget & Tax News (PDF)
The March 2005 issue of Budget & Tax News opens with coverage of President George W. Bush's State of the Union address, during which he called ... (read more)

Big Rx Companies Offer Big Savings to the Uninsured
More than 30 million uninsured Americans became eligible in February to receive savings of between 25 and 40 percent on 275 brand-name and generic prescription ... (read more)

Fixing America's Health Care System
The purpose of Sally Pipes' new book, the author says, is "to provide the reader with an easy-to-understand guide" to the problems of affordability, accessibility, ... (read more)

Advertising Prescription Drugs: Is It Wasted?
Anyone who watches television or reads popular magazines knows the amount of money spent on advertising for prescription drugs has increased dramatically ... (read more)

Commentary: No Child Left Unmedicated
Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical firms are gearing up for bigger ... (read more)

March 2005 Health Care News (PDF)
Page 1 of the March issue of Health Care News addresses new headline-grabbing claims that half of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by medical ... (read more)

Bush Calls for Historic Social Security Reform
President George W. Bush used his annual State of the Union speech on February 2 to call for sweeping changes to the nation's Social Security system, ... (read more)

Crichton Strikes Devastating Blow to Alarmists
Michael Crichton, author of best-selling books and blockbuster movies such as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, has published a new best-selling ... (read more)

Environmentalists Rally Against West Virginia, New York Wind Farms
Citizen-environmentalists are mobilizing to oppose a $100 million wind farm at the summit of Jack Mountain in Pendleton County, West Virginia, as well ... (read more)

Crichton on Global Warming
How much of the science in State of Fear is accurate, and how much is fiction? Here is a summary of the scientific claims about global warming ... (read more)

U.S. Stands Firm at Climate Change Talks
At the tenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during ... (read more)

Smart Growth: Surrendering the American Dream
We are facing in the United States today a very clear and present danger to our prosperity, and in particular to the prosperity of low-income groups in ... (read more)

Governor Cuts 320,000 from Ailing Tennessee Health Care Program
Governor Phil Bredesen (D) announced in January he would cut insurance coverage to 320,000 Tennesseans in an effort to reform TennCare, the state's troubled, ... (read more)

Technocrats' Takeover Threatens Patient-Oriented Medicine
A new report, "How Technocrats Are Taking Over the Practice of Medicine: A Wake-up Call to the American People," written by Twila Brase, president of ... (read more)

Insurance-Free Pharmacies Lower Consumers' Drug Costs
The cost of prescription drugs has been a major topic of debate in the United States for years. Based on largely anecdotal claims that prescription drug ... (read more)

Campaign for Drug Importation Falters
Importing safe and cheap prescription drugs would require a billion-dollar safety net that ultimately would consume most of the potential savings from ... (read more)

Figuring Out Social Security Reform
Social Security reform is a good idea, and one that will be debated for many years. But don't expect quick political action.

Armstrong Williams� Case Is a Problem of Principle
Proposed by the Bush administration and signed into law, No Child Left Behind is historic legislation that stands to finally help give Black children ... (read more)

The Heartlander: March 2005 (pdf)
The March 2005 issue of The Heartlander opens with Heartland President Joseph L. Bast�s discussion of Social Security reform.

March 2005 School Reform News (PDF)
The top story in the March 2005 issue of School Reform News reports on a lawsuit filed January 27 by three Atlanta families charging the state ... (read more)

February 2005 Health Care News (PDF)
The February 2005 issue of Health Care News offers several articles addressing the ongoing debate over prescription drug importation. Canadian ... (read more)

February 2005 Environment & Climate News (PDF)
"[Michael] Crichton has made the often-arcane debate over global warming entertaining and accessible to a huge segment of the American public," notes ... (read more)