FOCUS ON FACTS Dear Editor: In an April 24 letter to the editor Betty Wagoner reports that “a friend who lives in Arlie, Mont. … states that the wolves have completely destroyed the elk herds in his area.” That sounded quite untrue, so I checked the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks website and read their […]
Letters
April 24, 2013
SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION Dear Editor: The competing statistics on public school performance are a bit overwhelming (Solveig Torvik, “Hello?” column, March 27, and “Consider the conditions,” letter to the editor, Ed Parker, April 10). I agree with Mr. Parker that underlying poverty in the United States is a serious, contributing factor in poor school performance. […]
April 17, 2013
CONSIDER THE CONDITIONS Dear Editor, I appreciate the main the thrust of Ms. Torvik’s article about Finland’s educational system (March 27), but I want to take issue with the cursory treatment of the United States scores in the 2009 PISA test that elevated Finland to a top position and relegated the United States to a […]
