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A standardized national curriculum wouldn’t make California’s kids smarter or well equipped to compete in the global economy, or even better citizens. But a national, one-size-fits-all curriculum would be highly political, beset by special interest lobbying, and almost certainly diluted by teachers unions and education bureaucrats unaccountable to parents and voters.



Yet President Barack Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, 48 governors – including Arnold = Schwarzenegger – and a… Continue

Chicago, March 17: With shock and deep sorrow, The Heartland Institute announced today the sudden death of Ralph Conner, who served as the organization’s local government relations manager since 2005 and who informed and helped shape the organization’s efforts since its founding in 1984. Conner was found dead at his home in Maywood, Illinois, on Saturday, March 13.



“We’re all still in a state of shock,” said Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute. “Ralph was full of his… Continue

President Obama and abortion advocates in the Senate plan to remove pro-life language in the healthcare reform bill that passed the House on November 7. Their guns are aimed at the Stupak Amendment, a measure that ensures taxpayers' money will not fund abortions.



The amendment prohibits insurance plans in the socialized exchange set up by Obamacare from covering abortion. Advocates of the amendment say it merely maintains the status quo begun by the Hyde Amendment, a rider renewed… Continue

World News Australia on the SNS Broadcasting Network ran a 5-minute report Aug. 12 on how australian global warming skeptics are teaming with Heartland to battle the Australian government’s proposed cap-and-trade scheme. The program gave Jay and Bob Carter a couple minutes before turning over the camera to Greenpeace and a government spokesman with the usual non-rebuttal about flat-earthers.

http://player.sbs.com.au/naca#/naca/wna/Latest/playlist/Climate-sceptics-join-forces/

CHICAGO (Aug. 11, 2009) – Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. is on 15-city tour of Australia in advance of the Australian government's vote later this week on an emissions trading scheme similar to the cap-and-trade bill pending in the U.S. Congress.

Both pieces of legislation would impose a tax on emissions of carbon dioxide and cap emissions at a certain level. Businesses could buy permits to emit above their capped level, but that level gradually would…

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