Your Sunday, Sept. 10 editorial, "A Rush to Judgment on Bilingual Education," claims that two years isn't long enough to judge the success of Proposition 227's dismantling of bilingual education. Actually, bilingual programs have been obvious failures for 30 years, and 30 years of failure is long enough. Oceanside Unified, near San Diego, which almost... Read More

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that Silicon Valley is triumphantly leading the United States toward ever greater prosperity as the American economy shifts out of manufacturing into new information-based businesses. So far the euphoria about the New Economy has come in for remarkably little reality checking -- but there are reasons to believe that the economic... Read More