[2] McGroarty 14.
[3] Ellen Graham, "We're Tough on Public Schools, But We Blame Our Families For Many of the Problems," Wall Street Journal 14 March 1997: R1.
[4] "Improving Education." www.cg96.org/new/br/issue/educ.html; The Honorable George W. Bush, speech before the Texas Education Agency, 29 January 1997.
[5] "Student Achievement," Education Week 22 January 1997: 27.
[6] "Assessing Quality," Education Week 22 January 1997: 24.
[7] Diane Ravitch, "Town Meeting," Education Week on the Web 15 April 1997.
[8] "Assessing Quality" 24.
[9] "When to Blame the Teachers," New York Times 27 March 1997: A22.
[10] "Assessing Quality" 24.
[11] Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Diane Ravitch, Education Reform 1995-96 (Indianapolis: Hudson Institute, 1996) 7.
[12] Finn and Ravitch 7.
[13] McGroarty 18.
[14] Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Indicators of Education Systems, Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators (Paris: OECD, 1996) 212-13.
[15] OECD 200-01.
[16] McGroarty 17.
[17] McGroarty 17.
[18] David Boaz and R. Morris Barrett, "What Would a School Voucher Buy? The Real Cost of Private Schools," Cato Institute Briefing Paper 26 March 1996.
[19] Diane Ravitch, "Dumb Students? Or Dumb Textbooks?" Forbes 16 December 1996: 118.
[20] Ravitch, "Dumb Students" 118.
[21] Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1996, 8th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997) 369.
22 Finn and Ravitch 11.
[23] Boaz.
[24] Finn and Ravitch 6.
[25] Peter Applebome, "Better Schools, Uncertain Returns," The New York Times 16 March 1997: E5.
[26] Kenneth G. Wilson and Bennett Daviss, Redesigning Education (New York: Henry Holt, 1994) 1.
[27] Paul Kennedy, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Random House, 1993) 329-349.
[28] Tom Luce, Now or Never: How We Can Save Our Public Schools (Dallas: Taylor, 1995) 30-31.