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9 See Walberg; and Hanushek.
10 Caroline M. Hoxby, “School Choice and School Productivity, or Could School Choice Be a Tide That Lifts All Boats?” in Economics of School Choice, ed. Caroline Hoxby (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001).
11 See Walberg.
12 Eric A. Hanushek and Dennis D. Kimko, “Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations,” American Economic Review 90 (December 2000): 1184-1208.
13 Jill Casner-Lotto and Linda Barrington, Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers’ Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century Workforce, Document 20154 (New York: Conference Board, 2006). See also http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20154.
14 “What Democrats May Do,” Wall Street Journal, November 9, 2007, p. A2.
15 “The Battle for Brainpower: Survey of Talent,” The Economist, October 7, 2006, pp. 1-24.
16 Ibid., p. 11.
17 David Wessel, “Why It Takes a Doctorate to Beat Inflation,” Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2006, p. A2.
18 Herbert J. Walberg and Shio-Ling Tsai, “Matthew Effects in Education,” American Educational Research Journal 20 (1984): 359-74.
19 Quoted in “Nations Anxious to See if They Can Make the Grade,” Financial Times, October 18, 2006, p. 3.
20 “Asia and the World’s Economy,” The Economist, October 19, 2006.
21 Eric A. Hanushek. Eliott A. Jamison, and Dean T. Jamison, “The Effects of Educational Quality on Mortality Decline and Achievement Growth,” Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.
22 David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney, “Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence,” unpublished paper, Harvard University, June 2006.
23 “The Battle for Brainpower,” p. 11.
24 Ibid., p. 12.
25 Ibid., p. 14.
26 Ibid., p. 9.
27 U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Charting the U.S. Labor Market in 2005,” Chart 3-11, http://www.bls.gov/cps/labor2005/home.htm.
28 Quoted in ibid., pp. 23-24.
29 Andrew J. Coulson, Market Education: The Unknown History (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1999).
30 Charles L. Glenn, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, 2d ed. (Washington: Cato Institute, 1995); idem, Choice of Schools in Six Nations (Washington: U.S. Department of Education, 1988); and David Salisbury and James Tooley, eds., What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries (Washington: Cato Institute, 2005).
31 Andrew J. Coulson, “The Cato Education Market Index,” Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 585, December 14, 2006.
32 Joseph L. Bast and Herbert J. Walberg, Ten Principles of School Choice (Chicago: Heartland Institute, 2006).
33 Anna Fifield, “Korea’s Unlikely Internet Star,” Financial Times, February 15, 2007, p. 9.
34 For an excellent summary of this nascent industry, see Steven F. Wilson, Learning on the Job: When Business Takes on Public Schools (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Chapter 2
1 Gregg Vanourek, State of the Charter School Movement 2005: Trends, Issues, and Indicators (Washington: Charter School Leadership Council, 2005), p. 8, http://www.charterschoolleadershipcouncil.org/pdf/sotm2005.pdf.
2 Michael Petrilli, “Identity Crisis: Can Charter Schools Survive Accountability?” Education Next, Summer 2005, p. 57.
3 Robin J. Lake and Lydia Rainey, Chasing the Blues Away: Charter Schools Scale Up in Chicago (Washington: Progressive Policy Institute, 2005), p. 22.
4 Elizabeth Kneebone, Trinia Logue, Susan Cahn, and Michael McDunnah, Here and Now: The Need for Performing Schools in Chicago’s Neighborhoods (Chicago: Illinois Facilities Fund, October, 2004), http://www.iff.org/resources/content/1/1/documents/cpsfullreport.pdf.
5 Lake and Rainey, p. 6.
6 George A. Clowes, “Polls Show Vouchers Are Popular and Would Be Widely Used, ’ ’ School Reform News, April 2004 , http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId_15702.
7 Harwood Group, Halfway Out the Door: Citizens Talk about Their Mandate for Public Schools