Additional Resources

These articles, resources, webpages, and more may be helpful to teachers and administrators concerned with strengthening liberal education. They reflect the views of the authors, not those of the Teagle Foundation.

Additional resources can be found on the Grantees' Publications, Teagle Podcast, Teagle Essays, Listenings, and Virtual Listenings pages of the website.

• American Association of State Colleges and Universities and Association of Public And Land-Grant Universities. "Voluntary System of Accountability." http://www.voluntarysystem.org.
• American Council on Education. http://www.acenet.edu.
• Association of American Colleges and Universities. http://www.aacu.org.
• Bok, Derek. Our Underachieving Colleges. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
• Bowen, William G. and Derek Bok. The Shape of the River. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Bowen, William G., Martin A. Kurzweil and Eugene M. Tobin. Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
• Calhoun, Craig. "Is the University in Crisis?" New York: Social Science Research Council, 2006. http://www.ssrc.org/staff/president/IsTheUniversityInCrisis-1.pdf.
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Change Magazine. http://www.changemag.org
• The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://www.chronicle.com.
• The College Board. http://www.collegeboard.com.
• The Council of Higher Education Accreditation. http://www.chea.org.
• The Council of Independent Colleges. http://www.cic.edu.
• The Education Trust. "College Results Online." http://www.collegeresults.org.
• Higher Education Research Institute. http://www.heri.ucla.edu.
• Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. http://cpr.iub.edu/index.cfm.
• Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com.
• Jeffery, Jill. "Institutions of Higher Learning and Learning Organizations: An Annotated Bibliography." Prepared for the Teagle Foundation, 2008.
• Kaufman, Roger T. and Geoffrey Woglom. "Financial Changes and Measures of Success Among the Second Tier of Top Liberal Arts Colleges." Report prepared for the Teagle Foundation, Department of Economics, Smith College, and Department of Economics, Amherst College, March 2005. http://www.amherst.edu/~grwoglom/Financial%20Changes%20Second%20Tier%20Mar%202005.doc.
• -----. "Financial Changes and Optimal Spending Rates Among Top Liberal Arts Colleges, 1996-2001." Review of Higher Education 28, no. 3 (Spring 2005): 339-368. (Available online at http://www.amherst.edu/~grwoglom/LibArts12.doc.)
• Koblick, Steven and Stephen R. Graubard, eds. Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.
• Light, Richard J. Making the Most of College: Students Speak their Minds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. "University and College Accountability Network." http://www.ucan-network.org.
• National Center for Education Statistics. "Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)." http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds.
• NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policy and Analysis. http://www.higheredinfo.org.
• NERCHE. "New England Resource Center for Higher Education." http://www.nerche.org/index.html.
• Oakley, Francis. Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

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• The Assocaition of American Colleges and Universities. Liberal Education. http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/index.cfm.
• -----. "Liberal Education and America's Promise." http://www.aacu.org/leap/index.cfm.
• -----. Peer Review. http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/index.cfm.
• Benoliel, Peter A. "Liberal Education: Preparing Tomorrow's Business Executives." In Higher Education, Human Resources, and the National Economy: Addresses and Discussion Papers from the Sixtieth Annual Meeting, 117-123. Washington: Association of American Colleges, 1974. Permission granted by Association of American Colleges and Universities.
• Brint, Steven, Mark Riddle, Lori Turk-Bicakci, and Charles S. Levy. "From the Liberal to the Practical Arts in American Colleges and Universities: Organizational Analysis and Curricular Change." The Journal of Higher Education 76, no. 2 (March-April 2005): 150-180.
• Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts. http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu.
• Colby Anne, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, and Jason Stephens. Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
• Elmore, Donald E., Julia C. Prentice, and Carol Trosset. "Do Students Understand Liberal Arts Disciplines?" Liberal Education 92, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 48-55.
• Freedman, James. O. Idealism and Liberal Education. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• Marcy, Mary "Democracy, Leadership, and the Role of Liberal Education." Liberal Education (Winter 2002), 6-11.
• National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). http://www.nitle.org.
• Project Pericles. http://www.projectpericles.org.
• Sherman, Thomas M., L.P. Armistead, Forest Fowler, M.A. Barksdale, Glenn Reif. "The Quest for Excellence in University Teaching." The Journal of Higher Education 58, no. 1 (January-February 1987): 66-84.
• Wallace, Andrew G. "Educating Tomorrow's Doctors: The Thing That Really Matters is That We Care."Academic Medicine 72, no. 4 (1997): 253-258. Permission granted by Academic Medicine (www.academicmedicine.com).
• Wick, Michael and Andrew T. Phillips. "A Liberal Education Scorecard." Liberal Education 94, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 22-29. (Available online at http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-wi08/le-wi08_Scorecard.cfm.)

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• Angelo, Thomas A. "Doing Assessment as if Learning Matters Most." AAHE Bulletin, May 1999. (Available online at http://education.gsu.edu/ctl/outcomes/Doing%20Assessment%20As%20If%20Learning%20Matters%20Most.htm.)
• Assess This!: Focus on Student Learning and Development. http://assessory.blogspot.com.
• Association of American Colleges and Universities. Our Students' Best Work: A Framework for Accountability Worthy of Our Mission. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2004. http://www.aacu.org/publications/pdfs/StudentsBestreport.pdf.
• Association of American Colleges and Universities and Council for Higher Education Accreditation. New Leadership for Student Learning and Accountability: A Statement of Principles, Commitments to Action. Washington, DC: AAC&U and CHEA, 2008. http://www.teaglefoundation.org/learning/pdf/20080130_newleadership.pdf.
• Banta, Trudy. "Can Assessment for Accountability Complement Assessment for Improvement?" Peer Review 9, no. 2 (2007): 9-12. (Available online at http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp07/pr-sp07_analysis2.cfm.)
• Beck, Robert J. "The Independent Thinker: Assessing Student Outcomes in Tutorial Education." Working Paper, Lawrence University, 2009.
• Beld, Jo. "Selected resources to support program-level assessment." Office of Evaluation and Assessment, St. Olaf College.
• Beld, Jo, Mary Walczak, Dana Gross. "Engaging Faculty in Department-Level Assessment." Presentation, AAC&U Engaging Departments Institute, Philadelphia, PA, July 2009.
• Benjamin, Robert and Marc Chun. "A New Field of Dreams: The Collegiate Learning Assessment Project." Peer Review 5, no. 4 (2003): 26-29. http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-su03/pr-su03feature2.cfm.
• Borden, Victor M.H. and Jody L. Zak Owens. Measuring Quality: Choosing Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality. Tallahassee, FL: Association for Institutional Research / Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 2001. http://airweb.org/images/measurequality.pdf.
• Brooks, Rachelle L. "Measuring University Quality." The Review of Higher Education 29, no. 1 (2005): 1-21.
• Carey, Kevin. "Is Our Students Learning?" Washington Monthly, September 2006. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.carey.html.
• Chickering, Arthur W. and Zelda F. Gamson. "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education." AAHE Bulletin, 1987. (Available online at http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/ teachtip/7princip.htm.)
• The Council of Independent Colleges. Evidence of Learning: Applying the Collegiate Learning Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning in the Liberal Arts College Experience. Washington, DC: CIC, 2008. http://www.cic.edu/publications/books_reports/CLAreport.pdf.
• Chun, Marc. "Looking Where the Light is Better: A Review of the Literature on Assessing Higher Education Quality." Peer Review 4, no. 2-3 (2002): 16-25. http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp02/pr-sp02feature3.cfm.
• Duke University. "Office of Assessment - Resources." http://assessment.aas.duke.edu/resources.php#AssessmentGeneral.
• Ekman, Richard. "Fear of Data: A warning to CIC members to make peace with data-or suffer the consequences." University Business (September 2004). http://www.universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?p=540.
• Engelmann, Donna. "Assessment From the Ground Up." Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2007. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/08/14/engelmann.
• Ewell, Peter. "An Emerging Scholarship: A Brief History of Assessment." In Building a Scholarship of Assessment, edited by Trudy W. Banta and Associates, 3-25. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• -----. General Education and the Assessment Reform Agenda. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2004.
• -----. "Across the Grain: Learning from Reform Initiatives in Undergraduate Education." Working paper, American Association of Higher Education, 2002.
• -----. "Perpetual Movement: Assessment After Twenty Years." Working paper, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, Boulder, 2002.
• -----. "To Capture the Ineffable: New Forms of Assessment in Higher Education." Review of Research in Education 17 . Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research Association, 1991. 75-126.
• Ferguson, Michael. Advancing Liberal Education: Assessment Practices on Campus. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2005.
• Gawande, Atul. "The Bell Curve." The New Yorker. (December 6, 2004). (Available online at http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/06/041206fa_fact.
• Graff, Gerald. "Assessment Changes Everything." Inside Higher Ed, February 21, 2008. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/21/graff.
• Hamilton College. "Scoring rubric: The Mellon Project Assessment of Student Writing." Clinton, NY: Hamilton College.
• The Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Beyond the Rankings: Measuring Learning in Higher Education. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 2006. http://www.teaglefoundation.org/learning/pdf/2006_hechinger.pdf.
• Hersh, Richard. "Assessment and Accountability: Unveiling Value Added Assessment in Higher Education." Presentation, AAHE National Assessment Conference, Denver, CO, June 15, 2004.
• -----. "Collegiate Learning Assessment: Defining Critical Thinking, Analytical Reasoning, Problem Solving and Writing Skills."
• -----. "Generating Ideals and Transforming Lives: A Contemporary Case for the Residential Liberal Arts College." Daedalus 128, no. 1 (1999): 173-194. (Available online at http://www.collegenews.org/prebuilt/daedalus/hersh_article.pdf.)
• -----. "Going Naked." Peer Review 9, no. 2 (2007): 4-8. (Available online at http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp07/pr-sp07_analysis1.cfm.)
• -----. "Teaching to a Test Worth Teaching to in College and High School."
• -----. "What Does College Teach?" The Atlantic Monthly 296, no. 4 (November 2005): 140-143. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200511/measuring-college-quality.
• Kuh, George. "What We're Learning about Student Engagement from NSSE: Benchmarks for effective educational practices." Change 35, no. 2 (March-April 2003): 24-32. (Available online at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m1254/is_2_35/ai_98248470/.)
• Miller, Ross. Assessment in Cycles of Improvement. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2007.
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org.
• North Carolina State University. "Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment." http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm.
• Pace, C. Robert and Mark Connolly. "Where are the Liberal Arts?" Research in Higher Education 41, no. 1 (2000): 53-65.
• Pace University. "A Blueprint for Campus Accountability: Lessons from the Pace University Experience." New York, NY: Pace University, 2006. http://appserv.pace.edu/emplibrary/Blueprint.pdf.
• Pascarella, Ernest T., Ty M. Cruce, Gregory C. Wolniak, and Charles Blaich. "Do Liberal Arts Colleges Really Foster Good Practices in Undergraduate Education? Journal of College Student Development 45, no. 1 (2004): 67-84. (Available online at http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/cila/home.cfm?news_id=1383.)
• Schneider, Carol Geary and Ross Miller. Liberal Education Outcomes: A Preliminary Report on Student Achievement in College. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2005. (Available online at http://www.aacu.org/advocacy/pdfs/LEAP_Report_FINAL.pdf.)
• Shavelson, Richard J. "Assessing Student Learning Responsibly." Changes 39, no. 1 (2007): 26-33.
• Shavelson, Richard J. and Leta Huang. "Responding Responsibly: To the Frenzy to Assess Learning in Higher Education." Change 35, no. 1 (2003): 10-20.
• Shulman, Lee. "Counting and Recounting." Changes 39, no. 1 (2007): 20-25. Available online at http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/change/sub.asp?key=98&subkey=2169.
• -----. "Principles for the Uses of Assessment in Policy and Practice." President's report to the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, CA, 2006.
• Sotherland, Paul, Anne Dueweke, Kiran Cunningham, and Bob Grossman. "Multiple Drafts of a College's Narrative." Peer Review 9, no. 2 (2007): 20-23. (Available online at http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp07/pr-sp07_practice.cfm.)
• -----. "Kalamazoo College Adjusted CLA (mean +/- std error) / 2005 First-Year Students / 2006 and 2007 Senior Students." Teagle Foundation, 2007.
• Thompson, Robert J. and Matt Serra. "Use of Course Evaluations to Assess the Contributions of Curricular and Pedagogical Initiatives to Undergraduate General Education Learning Objectives." Education 125, no. 4 (2005): 693-703.
• Walvoord, Barbara. Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
• Walvoord, Barbara, Virginia Johnson Anderson, and Thomas A. Angelo. Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
• Wiggins, Grant. "The Truth May Make You Free, but the Test May Keep You Imprisoned: Toward Assessment Worthy of the Liberal Arts." In Assessment and Program Evaluation: An Ashe Reader, edited by Joan S. Stark and Alice Thomas, 545-556. Needham Heights, MA: Simon Schuster Custom Publishing. (Available online at http://www.maa.org/saum/articles/wiggins_appendix.html.)
• Zhao, Chun-Mei. and George D. Kuh. "Adding Value: Learning Communities and Student Engagement." Research in Higher Education 45, no. 2 (2004): 115-138. (Available online at http://www.iub.edu/~nsse/pdf/research_papers/ Zhao_Kuh_Learning_Communities.pdf.)

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• Anderson, Lorin W. and David R. Krathwohl. A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman, 2001.
• Barr, Robert and John Tagg. "From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education." Change 27 (1995): 13-25. http://www.uv.mx/bvirtual/media/docs/MEIF/Barr%20&%20Tagg,%20From%20Teaching...doc.
• Barsalou, Lawrence W. "Grounded Cognition." Annual Review of Psychology 59 (2008): 617-645. http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/papers/Barsalou_ARP_2008_grounded_cognition.pdf.
• Bransford, John D., Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, eds. "Design of Learning Environments" in How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. Washington: National Academies Press, 2000.
• -----. "How experts differ from novices" in How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. Washington: National Academies Press, 2000.
• Brookfield, Stephen D. "Through the Lens of Learning: How Experiencing Difficult Learning Challenges and Changes Assumptions About Teaching" in To Improve the Academy, edited by Laurie Richlin. Pittsburgh: Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, 1996.
• Carleton College. "Teaching Metacognition" http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/metacognition/teaching_metacognition.html.
• Case Western Reserve University. "David A. Kolb: Selected Publication" http://weatherhead.case.edu/research/faculty/profile.cfm?id=5389.
• Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. "Science of Learning: Annotated Bibliography." Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 2009.
• Chick, Nancy L., Aeron Haynie and Regan A.R. Gurung, eds. "From Generic to Signature Pedagogies" in Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2008.
• Cohen, Geoffrey L., Claude M. Steele, and Lee D. Ross. "The Mentor's Dilemma: Providing Critical Feedback Across The Racial Divide." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25 (1999): 1302-1318. http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/25/10/1302.pdf.
• Davidson, Janet E. and Robert J. Sternberg. The Psychology of Problem Solving. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• deWinstanley, Patricia A. and Robert A. Bjork. "Successful Lecturing: Presenting Information in Ways that Engage Effective Processing" in New Directions for Teaching and Learning 89 (2002): 19-31. http://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/pubs/deWinstanley.Bjork.2002.pdf.
• Dunlosky, John and Janet Metcalfe. Metacognition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc, 2008.
• Experience Based Learning Systems, Inc. "Research Library: Experiential Learning Bibliography" http://www.learningfromexperience.com/research-library/#33.
• Fink, L. Dee, Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach To Designing College Courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
• Finkel, Donald L. Teaching With Your Mouth Shut. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2000.
• Flavell, John H. "Metacognition and Cognitive Monitoring: A New Area of CognitiveDevelopmental Inquiry." American Psychologist 34 (1979): 906-911.
• Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
• Georghiades, Petros. "From the General to the Situated: Three Decades of Metacognition." International Journal of Science Education 26 (2004): 365-383.
• Grossman, Robert W. "Structures for Facilitating Student Reflection." In press, College Teaching 2009. http://www.kzoo.edu/psych/Reflection%20paper%20N%20draft%20with%20title%203.pdf.
• Higgins, E Tory. "Beyond pleasure and pain." American Psychologist 52 (1997): 1280-1300. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/higgins/papers/higgins1997.pdf.
• Jeffery, Jill. "Cognition and Brain Development in Students of Traditional College-Going Age: An Annotated Bibliography." Prepared for the Teagle Foundation, 2007.
• Karpicke, Jeffrey D. and Henry L. Roediger. "The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning." Science 319 (2008): 966-968.
• Kuhn, Deanna and David Dean Jr. "Metacognition: A Bridge Between Cognitive Psychology and Educational Practice." Theory into Practice 43 (2004): 268-273.
• Larsen, Douglas P., Andrew C. Butler, and Henry L. Roediger. "Test-enhanced learning in medical education." Medical Education 42 (2008): 959-966. http://psych.wustl.edu/memory/Roddy%20article%20PDF%27s/LarsenButlerRoediger_MedicalEducation.pdf.
• Pellegrino, James W., Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser, Eds. Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design Of Educational Assessment. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.
• Pascarella, Ernest T. and Patrick T. Terenzini. How College Affects Students. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.
• Schwarz, Norbert and Ian Skurnik. "Feeling and Thinking: Implications for Problem Solving." In The Psychology Of Problem Solving. Janet E. Davidson & Robert J. Sternberg (Eds.), pp. 263-260. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Science Education Resource Center (SERC). "Pedagogy in Action." http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/index.html.
• Shankweiler, David, W. Einar Mencl, David Braze, Whitney Tabor, Kenneth R. Pugh, and Robert K. Fulbright. "Reading Differences and Brain: Cortical Integration of Speech and Print." Developmental Neuropsychology 33 (2008): 745-775. http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/braze/shankweiler-etal-20070803a.pdf.
• Son, Lisa. "Cognitive Psychology Component: Benefits of Metacognitive Strategies." http://www.teaglefoundation.org/grantmaking/pdf/lisason.pdf.
• Steele, Claude M. "A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape the Intellectual Identities and Performance of Women and African-Americans." American Psychologist, 52(1997): 613-629 http://www.nber.org/sewp/events/2005.01.14/Bios+Links/Krieger-rec5-Steele_Threat-in-the-Air.pdf.
• VanderStoep, Scott W., & Norris, B. "The Relationship Between Religious Beliefs and Cognition, Motivation, and Behavior." In Advances in Motivation and Achievement (Vol 14), edited by Martin Maehr & S.K. Karabenick, 191-222. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2005.
• Varma, Sashank, Bruce D. McCandliss, and Daniel L. Schwartz. "Scientific and Pragmatic Challenges for Bridging Education and Neuroscience." Educational Researcher 37, no. 3 (2008): 140-152.
• Zull, James. The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2002.

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• Carpenter, Joel. "The Evangelical Student Today." Presentation prepared for the Teagle Foundation, 2005.
• Connor, W. Robert. "Draft Bbibliography on 'Religious Work' and Liberal Education." Prepared for the Teagle Foundation, 2005.
• Hartley, Harold V. "Big Questions Bibliography." Prepared in response to W. Robert Connor, "Big Questions." November 17, 2005.
• Kuh, George D. and Robert M. Gonyea. "Exploring the Relationships Between Spirituality, Liberal Learning, and College Student Engagement." Report prepared for the Teagle Foundation, Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2005.
• -----. "Spirituality, Liberal Learning, and College Student Engagement." Liberal Education 92, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 40-47.
• Social Science Research Council. "The Immanent Frame." http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame.
• Speers, Sam and W. Robert Connor. "How adequate is secularism as a basis for liberal education?" Email exchange, November 19, 2005.

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• Adelman, Clifford. Do We Really Have a College Access Problem?" Change 39, no. 4 (2007). http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/change/sub.asp?key=98&subkey=2385.
• The After School Corporation. http://www.tascorp.org.
• Datnow, Amanda and Robert Cooper. "Peer Networks of African American Students in Independent Schools: Affirming Academic Success and Racial Identity." The Journal of Negro Education 66, no. 1 (1997): 56-72.
• The Education Resources Institute. "Pathways to College Network." http://www.pathwaystocollege.net.
• Gándara, Patricia and Deborah Bial. Paving the Way to Postsecondary Education: K-12 Intervention Programs for Underrepresented Youth. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 2001.
• Holzer, Harry and David Neumark. "Assessing Affirmative Action." Journal of Economic Literature 38, no. 3 (2000): 483-568.Examines affirmative action on the basis of efficiency rather than redistribution.
• The Institute for College Access and Success. http://www.ticas.org.
• Lee, Sam. The Perfect Life. DVD. Directed by Sam Lee. Brooklyn, NY: Perfect Life Pictures, 2006.
• LinkEd. http://www.linkeducation.org/index.htm.
• McDonough, Patricia M. The School-to-College Transition: Challenges and Prospects. Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 2004.
• McPherson, Michael S. and Morton Owen Schapiro, eds. College Access: Opportunity or Privilege. New York: The College Board, 2006.
• -----. College Success: What It Means and How to Make It Happen. New York: The College Board, 2008.
• Metropolitan Center for Urban Education at New York University. http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter.
• National College Access Network. http://www.collegeaccess.org.
• National College Access Program Directory. http://www.collegeaccess.org/accessprogramdirectory.
• O'Connor, Carla. "Dispositions Towards Collective Struggle and Educational Resilience in the Inner City: A Case Analysis of Six African-American High School Students." American Educational Research Journal 34, no. 4 (1997): 593-629.
• Oakes, Jeannie and Gretchen Guiton. "Matchmaking: The Dynamics of High School Tracking Decisions." American Educational Research Journal 32, no. 1 (1995): 3-33.
• Partnership for After School Education. http://www.pasesetter.com/index.html.
• Simons, Gary, ed. Be the Dream: Prep for Prep Graduates Share Their Stories. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2003.
• Social Science Research Council. "Higher Education Access and Success." http://www.ssrc.org/programs/higher-education-access-and-success.
• -----. "Transitions to College: From Theory to Practice." http://edtransitions.ssrc.org/home.aspx.
• Stringfield, Sam 1997. "Research on Effective Instruction for At-Risk Students: Implications for the St. Louis Public Schools." The Journal of Negro Education 66, no. 3 (1997): 258-288.
• Thacker, Lloyd, ed. College Unranked: Affirming Educational Values in College Admission. N.p.: The Education Conservancy, 2004.

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