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The Primary Purpose of Education: Learning How to Learn	College degree programs that train students only for a specific job may be fine for getting the first job. But that's not the skill that will get them the job beyond that first one or help them keep their job as the world of work changes around them. click to view article.
The Order of Things	What college rankings really tell us. By Malcolm Gladwell, appearing in the New Yorker. click to view article.
Race to Nowhere	Award-winning documentary film that echos the CTCL message of "one student at a time" in a call to mobilize families, educators, and policy makers to challenge current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens. Click to view website.
Does It Matter Where You Go to College?	What sensible and ambitious students should keep in mind about where they go to school. By Martha (Marty) O'Connell, appearing in the New York Times Opinion Pages. click to view article.
The Merits of Exploring Less Visible Colleges	Looking beyond name recognition when searching for colleges, students leave themselves open to more possibilities for colleges that will be a great fit for them. By Martha (Marty) O'Connell, appearing in the New York Times blog, The Choice. Click to view article.
A Better Way to Choose a College	Smart colleges give students a healthy dose of the real world. By Richard M. Freeland, appearing in the Christian Science Monitor. click to view article.
The Way Forward on College Rankings: Remarks from the Annapolis Group	Questions about the U.S. News and World Report rankings of colleges and universities and about our relationship to those rankings are a sideshow to the serious issues that should steadily concern us about higher education today. By Douglas C. Bennett, President, Earlham College, delivered to the Annapolis Group, June 2007. Click to view article.
More on "Who Needs Harvard?"	TIME Magazine profiles Colleges That Change Lives in this article titled "Who Needs Harvard?" By Nancy Gibbs; Nathan Thornburgh, appearing in August of 2006. click to view article.
Who Needs Harvard?	The pressure on smart kids to get into top schools has never been higher … but the differences between these schools and the next tier, like those featured in Loren Pope’s Colleges That Change Lives, have never been smaller, according to Gregg Easterbrook, contributing editor of The Atlantic. This article appeared in the October 2004 (Annual College Guide) issue of The Atlantic. click to view article.