No polling has been done on the subject so far, but the New York-based American Scottish Foundation canvassed opinion from some of its members for the BBC.

BBC: Scottish independence: The American perspective

If eventually charged and found guilty of the offenses, the Pearson Foundation could have its important tax-exempt status stripped and be subject to thousands of dollars in fines.

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In response to a freedom of information request, one trust, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, reported that 42 of its doctors had been the subject of more than two patient complaints.

BBC: Health

Mr Schramm, who, as head of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City pays for a lot of research into the subject, argues that America needs to do more to maintain its entrepreneurial edge.

ECONOMIST: Innovation and entrepreneurship

Andy Thornton, of the Citizenship Foundation, described it as "an understandable defence of their own subject based on ignorance of another's", adding that citizenship teaching had helped transform schools, inducting pupils "into the social order of the day, empowering them to play their part in its stability and prosperity".

BBC: Overhaul school history, urges report by MPs and peers

This paper on corruption, economic freedom, and economic growth by Mushfiq Swaleheen and Dean Stansel, for example, formed part of the foundation for a 2010 paper Lisa Verdon and I wrote on the same subject.

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He won an academic scholarship to the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where he joined the swim team and earned a degree in engineering, a subject that interested him only insofar as it illuminated the mechanics of, say, how to level a structural foundation or gut-renovate a house.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention