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The following are the citations that were not included in the first run of the book:

20 The economy is now: Thomas Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us (New York: Picador, 2011).

27 In the book: Sheldon Richman, Separating School and State: How to Liberate America’s Families (Fairfax: Future of Freedom Foundation, 1994); John Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 1991).

41 The solution is simple: John Taylor Gatto, “Against School,” Harper’s Magazine, September 2003.

46 Shereshevskii was constantly: Jiang Xueqin, “How China Kills Creativity,” The Diplomat, July 2, 2011.

52 “We’re not going”: Nicolas Kristof, “China’s Winning Schools?,” New York Times, January 15, 2011.

63 Echoing Fareed Zakaria: Fareed Zakaria, “When Will We Learn?,” Time, November 14, 2011.

99 The National Council: William Fitzhugh, National Association of College Admissions Counselors Conference, September 28, 2005.

99 The rubric for: Charles Mcgrath, “Writing to the Test,” New York Times, November 7, 2004.

101 Imagine the hell: Robert Sternberg, College Admissions for the 21st Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).

125 With the second: Alison Gopnik, “Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School,” Slate, March 16, 2011.

143,145 “It’s no coincidence,” “Every now and”: Niall Ferguson: “How to Get Smart Again,” Newsweek, March 20, 2011.

149 Benjamin Rush, a: Sandra Day O’Connor, Lee H. Hamilton: “A Democracy Without Civics?,” Christian Science Monitor, September 18, 2008.

167 “Only when the”: Thomas Friedman, “Swimming Without a Suit,” New York Times, April 21, 2009.

167 In fact, according:  Dori Staehle, “Death of Creativity,”Next Stage Education Services;” http://www.nextstage-edu.com/2012/03/20/the-death-of-education-the-by-product-of-a-standardized-education-part-1/

169 First, why has: Mark Naison, “The war on teachers,” Washington Post, March 12, 2012.

171 According to the: Elizabeth Green, “Building a Better Teacher,” New York Times Magazine, March 7, 2010.

179 The very next: Diane Ravitch, “Merit Pay Fails Another Test,” Education Week, September 28, 2010.

179 Here are the facts: Linda Darling-Hammond, “Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching,” Education Week, March 5, 2012.