College Readiness Product Development and Office of Academic Initiatives

Complete List of Publications

Publications That Can Be Purchased

• A Challenge to Change: The Language Learning Continuum
• Claire W. Jackson, ed.
• The "Language Learning Continuum" is a descriptive model that offers a flexible and practical approach to student achievement.

• The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition
• Bruce A. Kimball
• The author and 25 leading scholars assess the purpose of liberal education in the United States and its role in achieving social and civic consensus.

• Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learning in America
• Robert Orrill, exec. ed.
• A collection of essays explores the theory and practice of contemporary liberal education from the perspective of a distinctively American pragmatic tradition.

• A Faithful Mirror: Reflections on the College Board and Education in America
• Michael C. Johanek, ed.
• The essays in this volume, by distinguished scholars and historians of education, take a critical look at the development of the secondary and higher education systems in America; the evolution of the concept of merit and its impact on college opportunity for all students; financial aid; testing and assessment; admissions and affirmative action; competing notions of the educated person-issues that will have enduring importance as we enter a new millennium.

• The Future of Education: Perspectives on National Standards in America
• Nina Cobb, ed., with an introduction by Robert Orrill
• Essays by prominent analysts of education reform examine the increasing trend toward government intervention in education and its possible implications and consequences.

• Interdisciplinarity: Essays from the Literature
• William H. Newell, ed
• This is an anthology of classic essays written about the potential of interdisciplinary study and solutions to problems encountered by interdisciplinary programs located in a university setting.

• Interdisciplinary Education: A Guide to Resources
• Joan B. Fiscella and Stacey E. Kimmel, eds.
• This volume is a resource guide and annotated bibliography for educators, administrators, and researchers in interdisciplinary K-16 education, with over 1,000 annotated and cross-referenced citations drawn from a wide range of sources.

• Interdisciplinary Education in K-12 and College: A Foundation for K-16 Dialogue
• Julie T. Klein, ed.
• This volume is the first full-length collection of essays on integrative and interdisciplinary education that bridges the K-16 continuum. Dr. Klein and the other distinguished experts provide basic definitions and terminology and examine guiding principles and current models and practices. Through a wealth of examples, the book offers insights into changes in traditional school subjects and academic disciplines, core curriculum and general education, interdisciplinary fields, and the broader imperatives of problem solving and of the critique of knowledge and education.

• Interdisciplinary General Education: Questioning Outside the Lines
• Marcia Bundy Seabury, ed.
• Faculty in the All-University Curriculum at the University of Hartford explore interdisciplinary education within the context of their particular courses. Interdisciplinary General Education contains 16 new essays, plus introductions by the editor.

• Orators & Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education
• Bruce A. Kimball
• Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Prize. Provides a study of the historical evolution of the idea of liberal education.

• Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
• Lagemann's important history of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching tells the story of this philanthropic trust, from its beginnings as a pension fund for college professors to its role as a major influence in higher education in the twentieth century.

• The Spanish Flu and Its Legacy
• A case-study workbook that promotes an inderdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning, using the events surrounding the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. Includes history and cases, teaching approaches, activities, and resources for the instructor.

• The Thinking Series: Critical Thinking Across All Disciplines
• In-depth subject booklets written for high school teachers and teacher educators. Each volume provides classroom activities and suggestions on how to teach all students to become competent thinkers.

• Inquiry and Learning: Realizing Science Standards in the Classroom
• John W. Layman with George Ochoa and Henry Heikkinen
• Shows concepts and methods teachers can use to bring the excitement of investigating the natural world to high school students.

• Languages of Thought: Thinking, Reading, and Foreign Languages
• Bette Hirsch Examines a broad range of areas that demonstrate how students' critical thinking skills can be developed as they acquire basic competencies in foreign languages.

• Reading Reconsidered: Literature and Literacy in High School
• Dennie Palmer Wolf
• Demonstrates how teachers can help every student achieve high levels of literacy.

• Taking Full Measure: Rethinking Assessment Through the Arts
• Dennie Palmer Wolf and Nancy Pistone
• Uses photography, theater, music, dance, and the visual arts to examine various approaches to enhance critical thinking skills during classroom assessment.

• Thinking Historically: Narrative, Imagination, and Understanding
• Tom Holt
• Approaches to help high school students use their own experiences to actively study the past.

• Thinking Through Mathematics: Fostering Inquiry and Communication in Mathematics Classrooms
• Edward A. Silver, Jeremy Kilpatrick, and Beth Schlesinger
• Advice on making changes in ordinary problems and situations that encourages students to connect thinking and mathematics.

• Why Numbers Count: Quantitative Literacy for Tomorrow's America
• Lynn Arthur Steen, ed.
• Essays by distinguished professionals in a variety of fields suggesting actions educators can take to prepare students with the quantitative skills necessary for them to thrive in today's rapidly changing society.

Reports and Articles Available on the Web

Minority High Achievement Task Force Reports

• Reports of the College Board's National Task Force on Minority High Achievement
• Established in 1997, this three-year initiative examined the underrepresentation of African Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Americans among students in the top ranks of academic achievement at all levels of the educational system.

• Reaching the Top
• This report presents the Task Force's recommendations for action, along with a review of what has been learned over the years about why differences in educational outcomes persist among racial and ethnic groups in the United States and what kinds of proven or promising strategies are available for reducing these gaps.

• Priming the Pump: Strategies for Increasing the Achievement of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates (.pdf/377k)
• Patricia Gándara, with Julie Maxwell-Jolly
• The author reports on the result of her efforts to identify higher education programs and strategies that have the capacity to help more minority students to distinguish themselves academically on the undergraduate level.

• Projected Social Context for Education of Children: 1990-2015 (.pdf/188k)
• Georges Vernez and Richard Krop
• The authors present an analysis of possible changes in the racial/ethnic composition of the student age population in the United States between 1990 and 2015.

• Calculus and Community: A History of the Emerging Scholars Program (.pdf/162k)
• Rose Asera
• The Emerging Scholars Program, which originated at the University of California at Berkeley, is a proven strategy for increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who achieve at high level in freshman calculus (and in initial freshman courses in several of the sciences.)

• Advancing Minority High Achievement: National Trends and Promising Programs and Practices (.pdf/370k)
• Geoffrey D. Borman, Sam Stringfield, and Laura Rachuba
• This report documents recent national progress in advancing the achievements of elementary-aged minority children, the potential for replicable whole-school reform designs to contribute to this advancement, and the individual, classroom, and school characteristics that distinguish those minority students who attain high levels of achievement.