PAGE 207: “establishing the caliphate is their religious duty” Hizb ut-Tahrir, “Home,” hizbuttahrir.org, accessed April 25, 2012, http://english.hizbuttahrir.org. • “‘motivating force behind fundamentalist Islam’” Jim Murk, Islam Rising (Springfield, MO: 21st Century Press, 2006), 15. • “they who are truly iniquitous!” Qur’an 24:55. http://www.islamicity.com/QuranSearch/ (24:55) (Sura Al-Nur, verse 55). • “‘the symbol of Muhammad, will be supreme everywhere’” Ronald de Valderano, “Terror: The War Against the West,”Imprimis, November, 1988, http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1988&month=11.
PAGE 208: “‘your theories are just wacky’” “Shields and Brooks on GOP Candidates’ Plausibility, Egypt’s Bottom-up Revolution,” PBS NewsHour, PBS, February 11, 2011, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/shieldsbrooks_02-11.html. • “through jihad against the apostate rulers and their removal” Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, 1st ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008), 123.
PAGE 209: “is the highest of our aspirations” Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Report on the Roots of Violent Islamist Extremism and Efforts to Counter It: The Muslim Brotherhood, 110th Cong., 2nd sess., 2008, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/353.pdf, and http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/steven_emerson_statement_for.php. • “in 1963 they created their first American front” William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 117. • “organization at the University of Illinois, Urbana: the Muslim Student Association” Muslim Students Association, “Our History: MSA National: Serving Islam and Muslims Since 1963,” msanational.org, accessed April 26, 2012, http://msanational.org/about-us.
PAGE 210: “‘And remember, you read it here first’” Brad Knickerbocker, “Why is Glenn Beck Freaking Out Over Egypt and a Caliphate?” Vox blog at csmonitor.com, February 12, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0212/Why-is-Glenn-Beck-freaking-out-over-Egypt-and-a-caliphate/(page)/2. • “threats from radical Islamists in America and abroad” William J. Federer, What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur’an: A History of Islam and the United States (St. Louis: Amerisearch, 2007), 18.
PAGE 211: “‘This is, and I do not use the term lightly, looney tunes’” Matt Schneider, “Chris Matthews: Glenn Beck’s Theories Are ‘Looney Tunes’ Trying To Distract Us from Thought,” mediaite.com, February 2, 2011, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-matthews-glenn-becks-theories-are-looney-tunes-trying-to-distract-us-from-thought. • “Allah tear his organs asunder” Memri Blog, “On Jihadi Forum, Incitement Against American Islamic Forum for Democracy Director,” thememriblog.org, January 25, 2012, http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/41602.htm.
Chapter 11
EDUCATION
Radical Ideas to Defeat the Radicals
PAGE 216: “will help us reach that goal” George H. W. Bush, “State of the Union Address,” January 28, 1992, transcript, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/bush-4.html. • “not just spend more money” William Jefferson Clinton, “State of the Union Address,” February 17, 1993, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/clinton-1.html. • “or having more public school choice” Bill Clinton, “State of the Union Address,” usa-presidents.info, January 25, 1994, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/clinton-2.html. • “have the opportunity to renew our skills” “1995 State Of The Union Address,” Politics, washingtonpost.com, January 24, 1995, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/states/docs/sou95.htm. • “let politics stop at the schoolhouse door” “Text of President Clinton’s 1998 State of the Union Address,” washingtonpost.com, January 27, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/states/docs/sou98.htm. • “that every single child can learn” Bill Clinton, “State of the Union Address,” January 27, 2000, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/clinton-8.html. • “education reform so that no child is left behind” George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address,” January 29, 2002, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/gwbush-2.html. • “They need more reform” “Full Transcript: Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address,” usatoday.com, January 24, 2012, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-01-24/state-of-the-union-transcript/52780694/1. • “competition called Race to the Top” The White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by the President in State of Union Address,” press release, January 25, 2011, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-president-state-union-address.
PAGE 217: “in science and 14th out of 15 in math” “American Children Trail in Math and Science,” New York Times online, February 06, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/06/us/american-children-trail-in-math-and-science.html, accessed April 12, 2012. • “they were doing forty years ago” Fawn Johnson, “Parsing the Nation’s Report Card,” Education Experts blog at nationaljournal.com, November 7, 2011, http://education.nationaljournal.com/2011/11/parsing-the-nations-report-car.php, accessed April 12, 2012. • “spent some $2 trillion on education” Andrew J. Coulson, “The Impact of Federal Involvement in America’s Classrooms,” cato.org, February 10, 2011, http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/impact-federal-involvement-americas-classrooms.
PAGE 218-219: “‘education system the best in the world. . .’” Jimmy Carter, “Department of Education Organization Act Statement on Signing S. 210 Into Law.” The American Presidency Project, October 17, 1979, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=31543#axzz1tU039auy.
PAGE 220: “per student since 1970 in real dollars” Gary W. Patterson, Jr., comment on Audrey Spalding, “The U.S. Education System Wrongly Penalizes Good Teachers, Won’t Fire Bad Teachers,” policymic.com, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.policymic.com/articles/3257/the-u-s-education-system-wrongly-penalizes-good-teachers-won-t-fire-bad-teachers.
PAGE 221: “parents who wanted their kids to read the Bible” Hannah Barker and Simon Burrows, eds., Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America 1760–1820 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 141. • “nature has made between man and brute” The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (New York: Penguin, 2004), 117. • “people would learn to guard their freedom” Meg Brulatour, “Transcendental Ideas: Education; Background for the State of Education in New England: Post-Revolutionary War to Mid-19th Century.” American Transcendentalism Web, accessed April 19, 2012 http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/edhistory.html.
PAGE 222: “architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain” “In a Second Revolution,” Life, December 26, 1960. • “time learning to achieve their goals” Erkki Aho, Kari Pitkänen, and Pasi Sahlberg, “Policy Development and Reform Principles of Basic and Secondary Education in Finland since 1968” (working paper series, Education, World Bank, Washington, D.C. May 2006), http://bit.ly/ICRqeC. • “it is a belief against all experience” James Bryant Conant, Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), 118. • “the infant against the will of his father” Tom Shuford, “Jefferson on Public Education: Defying Conventional Wisdom,” educationnews.org, June 28, 2007, http://www.educationnews.org/articles/jefferson-on-public-education-defying-conventional-wisdom.html, accessed April 19, 2012. • “and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical” David Kirkpatrick, “Thomas Jefferson on Education,” heartland.org, November 1, 2005, http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2005/11/01/thomas-jefferson-education, accessed February 2012.
PAGE 223: “from kindergarten through college” Matthew J. Brouillette, “The 1830s and 40s: Horace Mann, the End of Free-Market Education, and the Rise of Government Schools,” Mackinac Center for Public Policy, July 16, 1999, http://www.mackinac.org/2035. • “and eventually around the country” Seth Godin, “Stop Stealing Dreams: Wh
at is School For?” sethgodin.com, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf. • “fostering care of the Bolshevist government” Charles A. Morse, “How Communist is Public Education?” enterstageright.com, March 25, 2002, http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0302/0302publiced.htm. • “institutions as well as science and art” John Dewey, “The Future of Liberalism,” Address to the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1934, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/john-dewey-on-liberalisms-future.
PAGE 224: “be left to their own devices” Chiemeka Utazi, “Child Education in Rousseau’s Concept,” scribd.com, November 11, 2003, http://scr.bi/ICP2EN. • “tendency is to make the child secretive and deceitful” John Dewey, The Middle Works, 1899-1924, Volume 8: Essays and Miscellany in the 1915 Period and German Philosophy and Politica and Schools of To-Morrow, ed. Jo Ann Boydson (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979), 226. • “people under the nonreligious state” Rev. John A. Hardon, S.J., “John Dewey—Radical Social Educator,”Catholic Educational Review, October 1952, http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMESCHL/JNDEWEY2.HTM • “people under the nonreligious state” Rev. John A. Hardon, S.J., “John Dewey—Radical Social Educator,” Catholic Educational Review, October 1952, http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMESCHL/JNDEWEY2.HTM. • “per student, after adjusting for inflation” “Fast Facts,” National Center for Education Statistics, nces.ed.gov, accessed April 19, 2012, http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66.
PAGE 225: “In 2010, just. . .” “The Nation’s Report Card: U.S. History 2010,” National Center for Education Statistics, June 14, 2011, http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011468.
PAGE 226: “in 1961, after adjusting for inflation” Robert Franciosi, The Rise and Fall of American Public Schools (New York: Praeger, 2004), 24; U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2010 (NCES 2011-015), Table 188 and Chapter 2; National Center for Education Statistics, nces.ed.gov, http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=28.
PAGE 227: “steps required in the union contract” Michael Winerip, “Teachers Get Little Say in a Book About Them,” New York Times, August 28, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/education/29winerip.html. • “costing the city $30 million a year” Jennifer Medina, “Teachers Set Deal with City on Discipline Process,” New York Times, April 15, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/nyregion/16rubber.html. “school that is attempting to fire them” Jennifer Medina, “Teachers Set Deal with City on Discipline Process,” New York Times, April 15, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/nyregion/16rubber.html, accessed April 19, 2012. • “simply is too high a price to pay” “Teachers Union Big Wig Says It’s Not About Kids, It’s About Power!,” foxnews.com, February 23, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/02/23/teachers-union-big-wig-says-its-not-about-kids-its-about-power.
PAGE 228: “receive full pension and health benefits” Kristen Gosling, “Mark Berndt Paid to Resign from School District Following Sex Scandal,” ksdk.com, February 10, 2012, http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/302979/28/Teacher-in-Los-Angeles-sex-scandal-paid-to-resign, accessed February 2012.
PAGE 229: “kiss our public schools goodbye” Erik Kain, “Why I Support the Teachers Unions,” forbes.com, September 28, 2011, http://onforb.es/KoUsJ5.
PAGE 230: “$2 billion in union dues every year” Chris Edwards, “State and Local Fiscal Reforms,” Conference on State and Local Government Finance and Economic Turbulence, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 9, 2010, http://www.cato.org/speeches/chrisedwards-state-fiscal.pdf. • “order to back the Democrat machine” Steven Greenhouse, “N.E.A. Advances Endorsement for Obama in 2012,” The Caucus blog at nytimes.com, May 6, 2011, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/n-e-a-advances-endorsement-for-obama-in-2012. • “percent of that went to Democrats” “Teachers Unions,” Influence & Lobbying, opensecrets.org, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=l1300. • “New York City public school teachers” Fred Lucas, “New York City Teachers Union Is Largest Recipient of Obamacare Waiver; Parent AFT Union Spent $1.9 Million on Obama Election,” cnsnews.com, January 31, 2011, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/new-york-city-teachers-union-largest-recipient-obamacare-waiver-parent-aft-union-spent. • “movement of teachers for their rights” “Teaching About Labor Issues and the Wisconsin Worker Fight Back,” rethinkingschools.org, accessed April 19, 2012, http://rethinkingschools.org/news/WIProtestTeachingResources.shtml. • “climbed to roughly $24,000 a student” Chris Taylor, “Is College Worth It?” Money blog at reuters.com, September 15, 2011, http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/09/15/is-college-worth-it. • “wouldn’t have to deal with massive debt” Chris Taylor, “Is College Worth It?” Money blog at reuters.com, September 15, 2011, http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/09/15/is-college-worth-it. • “America with hard work and perseverance” T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., “The Shaping of the American Mind” (report, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, DE, December 2009), http://bit.ly/ICPtil.
PAGE 231: “critical thinking skills throughout college” “A Lack of Rigor Leaves Students ‘Adrift’ in College,” npr.org, February 9, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/02/09/133310978/in-college-a-lack-of-rigor-leaves-students-adrift, accessed February 2012. • “escalated by a factor of three since 1980” Linsey Davis, “Facebook and PayPal’s Peter Thiel Pays College Students to Drop Out,” abcnews.com, May 26, 2011, http://abcn.ws/ICPvaa, accessed February 2012.
PAGE 232: “Americans with the qualifications to fill those jobs” “Prepared Students,” waitingforsuperman.com, accessed February 2012, http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/action/theme/students.
PAGE 233: “rather than founding philosophy” Caroline Evans, “Back to School: 10 Completely Real College Courses That Sound Totally Fake,” Random Ephemera blog at houstonpress.com, August 3, 2011, http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/08/back_to_school_20_completely_r.php. • “Democrat:Republican ratio is probably about 8:1” Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern, “Liberal Versus Conservative Stinks,” Society 45, no. 6 (2008): 488-495, doi: 10.1007/s12115-008-9150-0; Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern, “Democrats and Republicans in Anthropology and Sociology: How Do they Differ on Public Policy Issues?” The American Sociologist 35, no. 4 (2004): 79-86, DOI: 10.1007/s12108-004-1025-2 http://www.springerlink.com/content/e942vnq7aumnwynu. • “Democrats and zero registered Republicans” “More Iowa Rationalizations,” History News Network blog at hnn.us, George Mason University, December 13, 2007, http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/45545.html.
PAGE 234: “identify themselves as any shade of liberal” Scott Jaschik, “Red Grader, Blue Grader,” insidehighered.com, May 20, 2011, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/20/study_finds_differences_in_republican_and_democratic_grading_patterns. • “liberal and only 13 percent as conservative” Howard Kurtz, “Most College Profs Lean Left, Study Says,” Seattle Times, March 30, 2005, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2002224341_professors30.html. • “reformed were they allowed to reopen” Mark. W. Clark, Beyond Catastrophe: German Intellectuals and Cultural Renewal After World War II, 1945-1955 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006), 55. • “from entering Canada on several occasions” “Bill Ayers Again Barred from Entering Canada,” Canada Newswire, June 15, 2011, http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/726585/bill-ayers-again-barred-from-entering-canada.
PAGE 235: “$54,000 per student last year.” Richard Vedder, “Princeton Reaps Tax Breaks as State Colleges Beg,” bloomberg.com, March 18, 2012, accessed April 29, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-18/princeton-reaps-tax-breaks-as-state-colleges-beg.html.
PAGE 236: “Maryland, along with many others” Scott Jaschik, “Murky Picture for Faculty Salaries,” insidehighered.com, April 13, 2009, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/13/aaup. • “$4.4 billion in fiscal 2011 alone” “Harvard Endowment Rises $4.4 Billion to $32 Billion,” Harvard Magazine
, September 22, 2011, http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/09/harvard-endowment-rises-to-32-billion, accessed February 2012. • “and Yale has $19 billion” Dan Berman, “Top 10 Richest Colleges: The Biggest Endowments,” advisorone.com, October 24, 2011, http://www.advisorone.com/2011/10/24/top-10-richest-colleges-the-biggest-endowments. • “dollars in federal funding every year” Radhika Jain, “Federal Government a Financial ‘Lifeline’ for Physics Department,” Crimson, October 26, 2011, accessed February 2012, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/26/physics-department-federal-funds. • “a systemic level at the national level” Donna Gordon Blankinship, “Public Universities Look Toward Federal Government as Another Source to Replace State Dollars,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 16, 2010, http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=91072159. • “country needs that interstate highway system” Donna Gordon Blankinship, “Public Universities Look Toward Federal Government as Another Source to Replace State Dollars,” startribune.com, April 16, 2010, http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=91072159.
PAGE 238: “challenging Einstein’s theory of special relativity” Tamara Cohen, “Einstein Wrong Again! New Experiment Confirms Doubts over His Speed of Light Theory,” dailtmail.co.uk, November 18, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2063163/Einstein-speed-light-2nd-set-scientists-particles-CAN-travel-faster-light.html.
PAGE 239: “her lunch for not being sufficiently nutritious” Matt Willoughby, “State Inspectors Searching Children’s Lunch Boxes: This Isn’t China, Is It?,” nccivitas.org, February 14, 2012, http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/state-inspectors-searching-childrens-lunch-boxes-this-isnt-china-is-it.