Caution & Controversy : Bibliography of Web Sources

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  1. Levine, Shirley. (December, 1997). "Ignore College Rankings: Become an Educated Consumer".
  2. College Board (Summer 1997). Rankings and ratings. Enrollment Management Review 13(4).
  3. Boyer, Ernest L. (2001). Considering College Quality. Greater Expectations National Panel, Briefing Paper #17. Association of American Colleges and Universities.
    [http://www.greaterexpectations.org/briefing_papers/bp17.html]
  4. Crissey, Michael (September 5, 1997). Changes in annual college guides fail to quell criticisms on their validity. Chronicle of Higher Education.
    [http://chronicle.com/article/Changes-in-Annual-College/99936/]
  5. Carey, Kevin. (March 19, 2009).  College Rankings Will Never Die.  The Chronicle Review. Chronicle of Higher Education.
    [http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/college-rankings-will-never-die/6736] 
  6. Bollag, Burton. (June 1, 2006). "Group Endorses Principles for Ranking of Higher-Education Institutions." The Chronicle of Higher Education.
    http://chronicle.com/article/Group-Endorses-Principles-for/25703/]
  7. Sharp, William. (1995). Building reputations: how the game is played.
    [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-1.1/vying.htm]
  8. Lombardi, John V., Craig, Diane D., and Capaldi, Elizabeth D. The Top American Research Universities Report.
    [http://mup.asu.edu/]
  9. Casper, Gerhard (Sept. 23, 1996). Letter to James Fallows.
    [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/961206gcfallow.html]
  10. Casper, Gerhard (April 18, 1997). An alternative to the US News and World Report College survey.
    [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/970418rankings.html]
  11. Gottlieb, Bruce ( August 31, 1999). Cooking the school books: How US News cheats in picking its best American colleges. Slate .
    [http://slate.msn.com/id/34027/]
  12. Carey, Peter and Duffy, Brian (September 7, 1999). Dissension in the rankings: US News responds to Slate's "Best Colleges" story. Slate .
    [http://slate.msn.com/id/34278/]
  13. Parmar, Neil. The Best Colleges for Making Money. SmartMoney. December 16, 2008.
    [http://www.smartmoney.com/Personal-Finance/College-Planning/The-Best-Colleges-For-Making-Money/]
  14. Field Jr., Thomas G. (1996). IP Specialty Rankings in US News & World Report. Franklin Pierce Law Center.
    [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 .
  20. Anonymous (2009). About the Rankings. US News & World Report .
  21. Anonymous (2009). Frequently Asked Questions: Grad Rankings. US News & World Report .
  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]