Stupid White Men-- and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! - Michael Moore [113]
Information on the disparity in health care is found in the following articles: the New York Times, “Blacks Found on Short End of Heart Attack Procedure,” Sheryl Gay Stolberg, May 10, 2001; the Associated Press, “Race Bias in Stroke Treatment Found,” Melissa Williams, May 4, 2001; and the Daily News, “Black Maternal Deaths 4 Times the White Rate,” Leslie Casimir, June 8, 2001.
The statistic about the use of guns in the home to shoot an intruder comes from The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, “Guns in the Home” fact sheet.
Chapter 5—Idiot Nation
Literacy figures come from the Dept. of Education National Adult Literacy Survey; Literacy Volunteers of America.
Bush’s gaffe is detailed in the New York Times, “Deep U.S.-Europe Split Casts Long Shadow on Bush Tour,” Frank Bruni, June 15, 2001.
The contents of his commencement address at Yale are described in the Associated Press, “George W. Bush commencement address at Yale University,” May 21, 2001.
Previous incidents of government officials’ lack of knowledge came from the St. Petersburg Times, “Politics is Nothing New in Choosing Ambassadors.” July 2 1, 1989; The Economist, “Ambassadors; What Price Monaco?,” March 4, 1989; the Associated Press, “European Press Has Fun with Clark Performance,” Jeff Bradley, February 4, 1981.
Accounts of Bush’s lack of knowledge of the capitals of major countries were reported in Salon.com, “Briefs or No Briefs?,” Jake Tapper, April 26,2001.
The Des Moines Register reported on the basic history test that top college students failed in “America’s Best & Brightest Are Clueless About Our History,” Donald Kaul, July 7, 2000. It was also featured in University Wire (UVa), “Education without Knowledge,” Bryan Maxwell, July 13, 2000.
Statistics about university class offerings came from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “The Selling Out of Higher Education,” Samuel Hazo,
September 3, 2000; and New York Times, “Much Ado—Yawn—About Great Books,” Emily Eakin, April 8, 2001.
Negative quotes about teachers come from the New York Times, “Education Panel Sees Deep Flaws in Training of Nation’s Teachers,” Peter Applebome, September 13, 1996; the New York Post, “The Teacher-Pay Myth” (editorial), December 26, 2000; Investor’s Business Daily, “Why Bad Teachers Can’t Be Fired,” Michael Chapman, September 21, 1998; Douglas Carmine, quoted in the Montreal Gazette, “Bring Back the Basics,” Brandon Uditsky, January 6, 2001; National Review, “Firing Offenses,” Peter Schweizer, August 17, 1998.
The story about hiring teachers from abroad: New York Times, “Facing a Teacher Shortage, American Schools Look Overseas,” Kevin Sack, May 19, 2001. Teacher shortages in New York are from the New York Times, “Teacher Pact Still Far Off,” Steven Greenhouse, June 5, 2001; New York Times, “Nation’s Schools Struggling to Find Enough Principals,” Jacques Steinberg, September 3, 2000; New York Times, “Survey Shows More Teachers Are Leaving for Jobs in Suburban Schools, Abby Goodnough, April 13, 2001. School facility information comes from the Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Conditions of Public School Facilities. The Washington Post, “26 DC Schools Cleared,” Debbi Wilgoren, September 12, 1997; and “Angry Judge Closes 4 More DC Schools,” Valerie Strauss, October 25, 1997. The janitor shortage was reported in the New York Times, “Janitorial Rules Leave Teachers Holding a Mop,” Shaila Dewan, May 28, 2001.
Information about Bush’s library tax cut comes from the Dallas Morning News, “Libraries Want to Shelve Bush’s Proposed Cuts,” April 13, 2001. Jonathan Kozol’s discussion of the state of school libraries, “An Unequal Education,” was featured in the School Library Journal. Additional information on school libraries and Richard Nixon’s connection to them can be found in the Christian Science Monitor, “Even in Information-Rich Age, School Libraries Struggle,” Marjorie Coeyman, February 6, 2001; and Education Week, “Era of Neglect in Evidence at Libraries,