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108 On average, they remain in this well-paid limbo: Erin Einhorn, “Teachers in Trouble Spending Years in ‘Rubber Room’ Limbo That Costs $65M,” 4 May 2010, www.nydailynews.com.
109 “we could just eliminate the bottom six to ten percent …”: Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, written by Billy Kimball and Davis Guggenheim, release date: Sept. 2010.
110 The film charts the connection: Center for Responsive Politics, Federal Election Commission Data, 16 May 2010, www.opensecrets.com.
111 Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute points out: Andrew J. Coulson, “The Effects of Teachers Unions on American Education,” Cato Journal 30, 1 (Winter 2010): 162.
112 “Since 1971, educational spending …”: Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, written by Billy Kimball and Davis Guggenheim, release date: Sept. 2010.
113 Based on the Prussian educational model: Ann O’Connell, “Are We Teaching American Citizens or Training Prussian Serfs?” May 1998, http://nj.npri.org.
114 Plus, as President Obama pointed out: Association of American Colleges and Universities, Greater Expectations Initiative, www.aacu.org.
115 In the 1950s, only 20 percent of high-school graduates: Diane Ravitch, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 328–330.
116 “The problem is,” says Guggenheim: Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, written by Billy Kimball and Davis Guggenheim, release date: Sept. 2010.
117 “Once again, it’s a question of priorities: Pew Center on the States, “One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections,” Mar. 2009, www.pewcenteronthestates.org.
118 and the number of people living behind bars: U.S. Department of Justice, “Prison Inmates at Midyear 2008,” 31 Mar. 2009, www.ojp.usdoj.gov.
119 In fact, America has more people living behind bars: International Centre for Prison Studies, “Prison Brief,” Kings College London, www.kcl.ac.uk.
120 Sadly, in that prison population: “Don’t Teach Our Children Crime,” 3 Jul. 2008, www.nytimes.com.
121 Bill Clinton started his second term vowing: Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, 4 Feb. 1997, clinton2.nara.gov.
122 But as of 1999, America’s: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, “Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS),” Dec. 2000, www.nces.ed.gov.
123 “By the year 2000,” Bush 41 vowed: George H. W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 31 Jan. 1990, www.cspan.org.
124 But 2000 arrived: National Center for Education Statistics, “Program for International Student Assessment (PISA),” Dec. 2001, www.nces.ed.gov.
125 What Abraham Lincoln said: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, comp. Roy P. Basler (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955), 537.
PART 4: CSI USA: WHO KILLED THE AMERICAN DREAM?
1 Since 1964 the American National Election Studies: American National Election Studies, “The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior,” 27 Nov. 2005, www.electionstudies.org.
2 In the mid-1960s, only 29 percent: Ibid.
3 And in 2008, 80 percent of Americans surveyed: “World Publics Say Governments Should Be More Responsive to the Will of the People,” 12 May 2008, www.worldpublicopinion.org.
4 In 2009, more than 13,700 registered lobbyists: Dave Levinthal, “Federal Lobbying Climbs in 2009 as Lawmakers Execute Aggressive Congressional Agenda,” 12 Feb. 2010, www.opensecrets.org.
5 double the amount lobbyists spent: Center for Responsive Politics, “Lobbying Database,” 25 Apr. 2010, www.opensecrets.com.
6 From 1974 to 2008 the average amount: Alan R. Grant, The American Political Process, 7th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2004), 252.
7 to more than 1.3 million: Center for Responsive Politics, “Big Picture: Price of Admission,” www.opensecrets.org.
8 For an example of how special interests took advantage: Simon Johnson and James Kwak, “Too Big for Us to Fail,” 26 Apr. 2010, www.prospect.org.
9 According to Simon Johnson and James Kwak in their book: Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial