Caution & Controversy : Bibliography of Web Sources

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    [http://www.greaterexpectations.org/briefing_papers/bp17.html]
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  5. Carey, Kevin. (March 19, 2009).  College Rankings Will Never Die.  The Chronicle Review. Chronicle of Higher Education.
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  11. Gottlieb, Bruce ( August 31, 1999). Cooking the school books: How US News cheats in picking its best American colleges. Slate .
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  13. Parmar, Neil. The Best Colleges for Making Money. SmartMoney. December 16, 2008.
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    [http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/usnwr.htm]
  15. Monk, Carl C. (February 18, 1998). Association of American Law Schools calls on US News & World Report to stop ranking Law Schools; Study challenges validity of magazine's system. AALS News release.
  16. Klein, Stephen P. and Hamilton, Laura. (February 18, 1998). The validity of the US News & World Report rankings of ABA Law Schools.
    [http://www.aals.org/reports/validity.html]
  17. Bradburn, Norman. "Outranked and Underrated". Legal Affairs. Nov/Dec 2005. 
    [http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/November-December-2005/argument_bradburn_novdec05.msp]
  18. Schatz, Martin (1993). What's Wrong With MBA Ranking Surveys? Management Research News 16(7), p.15-18.
    [http://unicorn.us.com/mba/rnkartcl.html]
  19. Anonymous (2009). About the Rankings/Methodology. US News & World Report .
    [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/cofaq_brief.php]
  20. Anonymous (2009). About the Rankings. US News & World Report .
    [http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-graduate-schools/2009/04/22/about-the-rankings-2010.html]
  21. Anonymous (2009). Frequently Asked Questions: Grad Rankings. US News & World Report .
    [http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-graduate-schools/2009/04/22/frequently-asked-questions-grad-rankings.html]
  22. Lemann, Nicholas. (Aug 31, 1998): " Universities Use Rankings Too." US News & World Report, v125 n8: p81.
    [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/articles/980831/archive_004662.htm]