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37
Ibid.
, pp. 277-278.

38
“Freedman was There,”
Dartmouth Review
, May 3, 1989, p. 6.

39
Murray Sperber,
College Sports Inc.
, p. 282.

40
Douglas Lederman, “North Carolina Board Adopts University-Wide Reforms After Study Finds Abuses in N.C. State Basketball,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, September 6, 1989, p. A32.

41
Sue Collins, “The High Price of Honesty,”
NEA Today
, October 1990, p. 15.

42
Fred Girard and Norman Sinclair, “Teachers Say They’re Pressured to Pass Students,”
Detroit News
, April 6, 1987, pp. 1ff.

43
Murray Sperber,
College Sports Inc.
, p. 291.

44
“Graduation Rates of Athletes and Other Students in Division I Colleges,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, March 27, 1991, p. A39.

45
Ibid.
, pp. A41-A43.

46
Ibid.
, p. A43.

47
Stanford Sports Quarterly
, Winter 1990, pp. 7, 11, 14, 16.

48
Raymie E. McKerrow and Norinne Hilchey Daly, “Student-Athletes in Search of Balance,”
Phi Kappa Phi Journal
, Fall 1990, p. 43.

49
Murray Sperber,
College Sports Inc.
, pp. 264-265.

50
Ibid.
, pp. 272-274.

CHAPTER 10: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

1
Mary Hatwood Futrell, “Report of the President,” National Education Association of the United States,
Proceedings of the Sixty-Eighth Representative Assembly
, July 2-5, 1989 (Washington, D.C.: National Education Association, 1990), p. 7.

2
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation’s Schools, Why it’s Failing, and What Should Be Done
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 152.

3
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1991
(New York: Pharos Books, 1990), p. 207.

4
The Editors of the Chronicle of Higher Education,
The Almanac of Higher Education 1989-90
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), pp. 24-25.

5
Ibid.
, p. 50.

6
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, p. 115.

7
Ibid.
, p. 154.

8
Scott Jaschik, “To Win More Money from State Legislatures, Colleges Find They Must Use the ‘T-Word,’”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, April 27, 1988, p. A25.

9
Anne Lowrey Bailey, “President of United Negro College Fund Denounces Corporate Practice of Specifying a Grant’s Purpose,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, April 20, 1988, pp. A37-A38.

10
Quoted in John Searle, “The Storm over the University,”
New York Review of Books
, December 6, 1990, p. 35.

11
“Bok Focuses on Criticisms of Higher Education,”
Harvard-Alumni Gazette
, June 1990, p. 6.

12
Amy Parker, “First Annual Convocation Held,”
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
, September 14, 1990, p. 1.

13
Edward B. Jenkinson,
Student Privacy in the Classroom
(Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1990), p. 9.

14
Francis Oakley, “Despite Its Critics, Undergraduate Education Is a Success,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, March 14, 1990, p. A52.

15
Karen J. Winkler, “Organization of American Historians Back Teaching of Non-Western Culture and Diversity in Schools,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, February 6, 1991, p. A5; Henry Rosovsky,
The University: An Owner’s Manual
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1990), pp. 297-298.

16
“Freedman Speaks at Harvard,”
Dartmouth Review
, January 2, 1991, p. 5.

17
“Learning to Love the PC Canon,”
Newsweek
, December 24, 1990, p. 50.

18
“Teaching Your Children,”
Forbes
, November 11, 1991, p. 20.

19
News from the College Board
, for release August 27, 1991, p. 5.

20
Thomas Toch,
In the Name of Excellence
, pp. 44-56.

21
Lynda Carl Frankenstein, “
Man: A Course of Study
—A Case Study of Diffusion in Oregon,” Ph.D. dissertation, School of Education, Stanford University, 1977, pp. 82-83.

22
Peter B. Dow, “MACOS Revisited: A Commentary on the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Man: A Course of Study,”
Social Education
, October 1975, p. 389.

23
Congressman John B. Conlan, “MACOS: The Push for a National Curriculum,”
Social Education
, October 1975, p. 390.

24
Ruth C. Engs, S. Eugene Barnes, and Molly Wanta,
Health Games Students Play: Creative Strategies for Health Education
(Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1975), p. 48.

25
Ibid.
, p. 47.

26
See, for examples, Stanley W. Lindberg, editor,
The Annotated McGuffey: Selections from the McGuffey Eclectic Reacers 1836-1920
(New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1976), p. 357, where the index lists four lines of page citations under the entry for death.

27
Ibid.
, p. 203.

28
Ibid.
, p. 204.

29
Ruth Engs, S. Eugene Barnes, and Molly Wanta,
Health Games Students Play
, p. 47.

30
Daniel Leviton, “Response to a Closet Death Educator,”
Curriculum Review
, September 1989, p. 6.

31
Jacquelin Kasun, “Sex Education: The Hidden Agenda,”
The World & I
, September 1989, p. 111.

32
Pearl Evans,
Hidden Damages in the Classroom
(Petaluma, Calif.: Small Helm Press, 1950), p. 10.

33
Quest
, pp. 85-86.

34
Child Abuse in the Classroom
, edited by Phyllis Schlafly (Westehester, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1988), p. 285.

35
Ibid.
, pp. 286-287.

36
Ibid.
, pp. 211-213.

37
Murder in the Playground: The Burnage Report
(London: Long-sight Press, 1989), pp. 175-176, 181, 196, 197, 207-208, 210-211, 218.

38
Child Abuse in the Classroom
, p. 240.

39
Ibid.
, pp. 413-414.

40
Ibid.
, p. 306.

41
Bill Youngblood, “Here’s Why Parental Choice for Public Schools is Nonsense,”
Peninsula Times Tribune
, March 14, 1991, p. B-7.

42
American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker, quoted in “Nine Phoney Assertions About School Choice: Answering the Critics,”
Backgrounder
, No. 852, September 13, 1991 (The Heritage Foundation), p. 7.

43
Ibid.
, p. 6.

44
See, for example, Joe Nathen, “The Rhetoric and the Reality of Expanding Educational Choices,”
Phi Delta Kappan
, March 1985, p. 477.

45
Ibid.

46
Stuart Steers, “The Catholic Schools’ Black Students,”
This World
, December 23, 1990, p. 8.

47
“Skimming the Cream Off Schools,”
New York Times
, July 25, 1991, p. A16.

48
James S. Coleman, Thomas Hoffer, and Sally Kilgore,
High School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Private Schools Compared
(New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1982), p. 194.

49
Ibid.
, p. 144.

50
Stuart Steers, “The Catholic Schools’ Black Students,”
This World
, December 23, 1990, p. 9.

51
Stefanie Weiss, “Open Enrollment Plans,”
NEA Today
, May/June 1990, p. 3.

52
“Bok Focuses on Criticisms of Higher Education,”
Harvard Alumni Gazette
, June 1990, p. 5.

53
Ansley A. Abraham,
Racial Issues on Campus: How Students View Them
(Atlanta: Southern Regional Education Board, 1990), p. 24.

54
Derek Bok,
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 52; Henry Rosovsky,
The University
, p. 296.

55
The Editors of the Chronicle of Higher Education,
The Almanac of Higher Education
1989-90, p. 36.

56
Congressional Budget Office,
Student Aid and the Cost of Post-secondary Education
(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Budget Office, 1990), pp. xx-xxiv, 12-13, 105-106.

57
Chester E. Finn, Jr., “Consumers Need A ‘No-Frills University’ to Turn the Higher-Education Marketplace Upside Down,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, October 26, 1988, p. B1.

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