MEREDITH: Bashing dedicated teachers is no way to reform education
Teachers simply cannot be made the scapegoats in the education reform debate. This merely distracts from the real issues at hand.
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HARRIS: Education reform would elevate, not denigrate, teachers
What is especially troubling about this tactic is that it denies us a chance to debate these critical issues. The policies being proposed in Indiana to evaluate and reward teachers would benefit from a robust debate.
HERBERT: The greatest nation ever has lost its way
This inequality, in which an enormous segment of the population struggles while the fortunate few ride the gravy train, is a world-class recipe for social unrest.
KRISTOF: Get used to the messy democracy in Egypt
Roads to democracy are always bumpy—and, frankly, I feel pretty good about Egypt.
COLLINS: Some of the dimmer bulbs are at it again
Hysteria over the government taking away our right to buy inefficient light bulbs has been sweeping through certain segments of the Republican Party.
BROOKS: Paul Ryan’s enlightened moment of truth
Ryan leaped into the vacuum left by the president’s passivity.
DOWD: Republican Party gone the way of Mad Men
When Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor and Republican presidential aspirant, dared to urge his party to “mute” social issues, he was smacked.
KRUGMAN: It’s too bad the truth is still inconvenient
As Upton Sinclair pointed out long ago, it’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
DOUTHAT: Opportunity is ripe for GOP; stage is empty
Alas, somebody else may have to ensure the survival of the republic, since Daniels has spent the month backpedaling from the idea of a presidential run.
RENN: Indy is still the Midwest growth champion
Add it all up, and Indianapolis appears to be demographically strong, with a strong appeal to Hoosier and ethnic newcomers, and an emergent black growth engine as well.
HEIN: In praise of mighty not-for-profit groups
Not-for-profit employees, and the volunteers who join their mission, are the tip of Indiana’s public service arrow.
EARLY: Lugar, Mourdock fight already a bruiser
In any event, Mourdock will have an energized Tea Party in his corner as well as many of the party regulars. Mourdock is a great speaker and a tireless worker. Lugar does not want to debate him.
BOEHM: State employees hang in court balance
If the Supreme Court agrees with the 1984 opinion, the effect would presumably be to bar state employees from serving in the Legislature, a holding of no small consequence.
KETZENBERGER: Drafting Daniels for corporate Indiana
If his first run for governor is any indication, he’d make a heckuva presidential candidate. I hope he doesn’t.
VAUGHN: No excuse for keeping tainted Durham funds
Continuing to use the excuse that the money is already spent amounts to a slap in the face of the Ohio victims of Durham’s illegal scheme, many who lost their life savings.
FEIGENBAUM: Fallout from Democrats’ walkout will affect fall elections
Following five weeks in a chain hotel in Illinois, House Democrats marched back into the Statehouse—literally—on March 28, escorted by union leaders along Capitol Street and up the east steps in an event made for media. So who wins?
Drilling is energy key
The [March 28] energy article by [Bruce] Hetrick proposes a Hollywood piece of fiction as a modern-day parable of undeniable truth.
Health Foundation ‘far above average’
As a grantee of The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis, I read [reporter Kathleen McLaughlin’s March 21] article with great interest.
KENNEDY: Death (penalty) and taxes aren’t certainties after all
Everyone, it seems, wants government to cost less—until someone suggests cuts to our particular sacred cows.
MARCUS: The recovery is over … or maybe not
The recession in Indiana and the nation lasted only three quarters. But the Hoosier recovery took six quarters.