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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The War on America's Public Schools | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Higher Education: Biting the Hand That Feeds | |
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| Business and Industry: A Workforce at Risk? | |
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| Christian Conservatives | |
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| Dueling Visions | |
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| The Master Myth: Money Doesn't Matter | |
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| The Correlations between Spending and Outcomes in Schools | |
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| The SATs and State Participation Rates | |
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| Studying the Studies: A Closer Look at Methodology | |
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| Does Spending Equal Achievement? | |
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| Education Spending in the United States | |
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| Other Justifications for the "Master Myth" | |
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| What Spending Can Achieve | |
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| Project STAR | |
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| Project SAGE | |
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| Mandating Small Classes | |
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| The Historical Context | |
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| The Factory Model of Schooling | |
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| The Cold War Era in Public School Reform | |
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| The "Paper Sputnik" | |
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| Schooling in the New Millennium | |
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| The Condition of American Public Education | |
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| High-Stakes Testing in the United States and Abroad | |
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| Our Leaders--Accentuating the Negative | |
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| Domestic Data on the Condition of Education | |
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| The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Invasion of the Privatizers | |
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| Charter Schools | |
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| The Genesis of Charter Schools | |
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| Opposition to the Charter Movement | |
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| The Popularity of Charter Schools | |
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| Three Case Studies: Arizona, Michigan, and California | |
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| Ohio and Elsewhere | |
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| Charter Schools and Public School Funding | |
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| Summary | |
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| Private Schools and the Private Management of Public School Programs | |
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| The TesseracT Group (Formerly Education Alternatives, Inc.) | |
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| Edison Schools, Inc.: The Market in Theory versus the Market in Practice | |
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| Beacon Education Management (Formerly Alternative Public Schools) | |
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| Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. | |
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| Advantage Schools, Inc. | |
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| The "Education Industry": Wall Street Takes Notice | |
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| EduVentures, Inc. | |
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| Two Comprehensive Systems: Knowledge Universe and Sylvan Learning Systems | |
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| Vouchers, Public and Private | |
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| John Stuart Mill and the Concept of Vouchers | |
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| Comparing Vouchers and Charters | |
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| A Sample Voucher Program--Miwaukee, Wisconsin | |
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| Voucher Programs in Florida and Elsewhere | |
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| Making Vouchers Accountable | |
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| A Nation of Vouchers: Chile | |
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| Vouchers in U.S. Cities | |
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| The Condition of Vouchers and Charters According to RAND | |
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| The Children's Education Opportunity Foundation (CEO America) | |
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| Homeschooling | |
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| Commercialism in the Schools | |
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| Mike Cameron Loses His Shirt: A Tale of Our Times | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |