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10 Caroline M. Hoxby, “If Families Matter Most,” in A Primer on America’s Schools, ed. Terry M. Moe (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2001), p. 117.
11 Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p. 160.
12 George A. Clowes, “Polls Show Vouchers Are Popular and Would Be Widely Used,” School Reform News, April 2004.
13 Public Agenda, “On Thin Ice: How Advocates and Opponents Could Misread the Public’s View on Vouchers and Charter Schools,” 1999.
14 Harwood Group, “Halfway Out the Door: Citizens Talk about Their Mandate for Public Schools,”Kettering Foundation, 1995 , http: // www.theharwoodgroup.com.
15 Lowell C. Rose and Alec M. Gallup, “The 38th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/ Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes toward the Public Schools,” Phi Delta Kappa International, 2006.
16 Terry Moe, “Cooking the Questions,” Education Next, 2002, pp. 70-72, http://Iwww.educationnext.org/20021/70.html.
17 “New Evidence Calls PDK School Choice Poll into Question,” Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation, news release, August 23, 2005, http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/news/2005-08-23.html.
18 Education Testing Service, “Ready for the Real World? Americans Speak on High School Reform,” public opinion research conducted by Peter D. Hart and David Winston, June 2005, http://ftp.ets.org/pub/corp/2005execsum.pdf.
19 Peter D. Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies, “Rising to the Challenge: Are High School Graduates Ready for College and Work? Key Findings from Surveys among Public High School Graduates, College Instructors, and Employers,” February 2005 (survey conducted December 2004-January 2005 for Achieve, Inc.).
20 Rose and Gallup.
21 E. D. Tab, “Parent and Family Involvement in Education: 2002-2003,” National Center for Education Statistics, National Household Education Survey, 2005, Table 13, p. 45.
22 Terry Moe, Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public (Washington: Brookings Institution, 2001), p. 69.
23 Glover Park Group. “Poll Finds Broad Support for Public Charter Schools,” 2006.
24 U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics, “1.1 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2003,” 2004, http://nces.ed.gov/nhes/homeschool/.
25 Isabel Lyman, “Home Schooling: Back to the Future,” Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 294, January 7, 1998.
26 Luis Huerta, Maria-Fernanda González, and Chad d’Entremont, “Cyber and Home School Charter Schools: Defining New Forms of Public Schooling, Peabody Journal of Education 81, no. 1 (2006): 103-39.
27 Mark Schneider and Jack Buckley, “Can Modern Technologies Cross the Digital Divide to Enhance Choice and Build Stronger Communities?” Columbia University Teachers College National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education Occasional Paper no. 7, October 2000.
28 Amos Bradley, “Survey Reveals Teens Yearn for High Standards,” Education Week, February 12, 1997, p. 12.
29 James Johnson and Samuel Farkas, “Getting By: What American Teenagers Really Think about Their Schools,” Public Agenda, 1997.
30 Jeff Archer, “District Leaders Said Not to Share Urgency for Education Reform,” Education Week, October 4, 2006, p. 7.
31 Harris Interactive, “The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher 2001,” 2001.
32 Theodore Sizer, Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High Schools (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
33 Tom Loveless, The 2006 Brown Center Report on American Education (Washington: Brookings Institution, 2006), http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/2006browncenterreportonamericaneducation.htm .
34 S. Farkas and J. Johnson, “Different Drummers: How Teachers of Teachers View Public Education,” Public Agenda, 1997.
35 On the basis of data for the 2003-2004 school year from 29 states reporting from September 1, 2004, 13 percent of schools nationwide have “needs improvement” status and 30.4 percent failed to make AYP. Calculated from data in Lynn Olson, “Data Shows Schools Making Progress on Federal Goals,” Education Week