Resources valuable to our filmmaking process

Title	Author	Year	City	Publisher
The Golden Ticket – A Life in College Admissions Essays	Smith, Irena	2023	Phoenix, AZ	She Writes Press
College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change	Geisinger, Kurt F.	2023	New York, NY	Routledge
Can College Level the Playing Field?	Baum, Sandy, & McPherson, Michael	2022	Princeton, NJ	Princeton University Press
Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It	Diver, Colin	2022	Baltimore	Johns Hopkins University Press
Rethinking College Admissions - Research-Based Practice and Policy	OiYan A. Poon and Michael N. Bastedo (Editors)	2022	Cambridge, MA	Harvard Education Press
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream	Bunch, Will	2022	New York, NY	William Morrow
Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us	Mandery, Evan	2022	New York, NY	The New Press
Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal	Laporte, Nicole	2021	New York	Twelve / Hatchet Books
Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education	LeBlanc, Paul	2021	Cambridge, MA	Harvard Education Press
An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy	Xu, Kenny	2021	New York	Diversion Books
What Universities Owe Democracy	Daniels, Ronald	2021	Baltimore	Johns Hopkins University Press
Opting Out: The Story of the Parents’ Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools	Hursh, David; Deutermann, Jeanette; Rudley, Lisa & Chen, Zhe	2020	Gorham, ME	Myers Education Press
The Scandal of Standardized Tests: Why We Need to Drop the SAT and ACT	Soares, Joseph A.	2020	New York, NY	Teacher's College Press
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions	Selingo, Jeffrey	2020	New York, NY	Scribner
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?	Sandel, Michael J.	2020	New York, NY	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students	Jack, Anthony Abraham	2020	Cambridge, MA	Harvard University Press
The Merit Myth - How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America	Carnevale, Anthony P., Schmidt, Peter & Strohl, Jeff	2020	New York, NY	The New Press
Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal	Korn, Melissa & Levitz, Jennifer	2020	New York	Portfolio / Penguin
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us	Tough, Paul	2019	Boston, MA	Mariner Books
Measuring Success: Testing, Grades, and the Future of College Admissions	Buckley, Jack; Letukas, Lynn & Wildavsky, Ben (eds.)	2018	Baltimore, MD	Johns Hopkins University Press
Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality	Schneider, Jack	2017	Cambridge, MA	Harvard University Press
The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better	Koretz, Daniel	2017	Chicago, Ill.	University of Chicago Press
All the Wisdom and None of the Junk: Secrets of Applying for College Admission and Scholarships	Craig, Katy & Kramer, Katie	2017	Seattle, WA	CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education	Dixon-Román, Ezekiel J	2017	Minneapolis, MN	University of Minnesota Press
The Death and ,Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (3rd edition)	Ravitch, Diane	2016	New York, NY	Basic Books
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America	Guinier, Lani	2015	Boston, MA	Beacon Press
The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be	Kamenetz, Anya	2015	New York, NY	PublicAffairs
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania	Bruni, Frank	2015	New York, NY	Grand Central Publishing
Excellent Sheep: the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life	Deresiewicz, William	2014	New York, NY	Free Press
The Better College Essay	Stone, Elizabeth	2014	Westford, MA	Wintergreen Orchard House
The Perfect Score Project: One Mother's Journey to Uncover the Secrets of the SAT	Stier, Debbie	2014	New York, NY	Harmony Books
Henry Chauncey: An American Life	Elliot, Norbet	2014	New York, NY	Peter Lang Publishing
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010	Murray, Charles	2012	New York, NY	Crown Forum
SAT Wars: the Case for Test-Optional Admissions	Soares, Joseph A	2012	New York, NY	Teachers College Press
College Admission : From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step	Mamlet, Robin	2011	New York, NY	Random House
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences	Gardner, Howard	2011	New York, NY	Basic Books; 3rd edition
Getting In: The Zinch Guide to College Admissions & Financial Aid in the Digital Age	Cohen, Steve; Dwane, Anne; de Oliveira, Paulo; and Muska, Michael	2011	Hoboken, NJ	Wiley Publishing
Everything School Leaders Need to Know About Assessment	Popham, James W	2011	Thousand Oaks, CA	Corwin
The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do	Harris, Phillip; Smith, Bruce M.; and Harris, Joan	2011	Lanham, MD	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College	Kahlenberg, Richard (Ed.)	2010	New York, NY	Century Foundation Books
How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out)	Newport, Cal	2010	New York, NY	Three Rivers Press
Human Intelligence	Hunt, Earl	2010	Cambridge, UK	Cambridge University Press
A Is for Admission: The Insider’s Gide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges (Revised ed.)	Hernandez, Michele A	2009	New York, NY	Grand Central Publishing
Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry	Farley, Todd	2009	Oakland, CA	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life	Espenshade, Thomas J. and Radford, Alexandria Walton	2009	Princeton, NJ	Princeton University Press
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities	Bowen, William; Chingos, Matthew M. & McPherson, Michael S	2009	Princeton, NJ	Princeton University Press
Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us	Koretz, Daniel	2008	Cambridge, MA	Harvard University Press
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality	Murray, Charles	2008	New York, NY	Crown Forum
The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson	Atkinson, Richard C. & Pelfrey, Patricia A	2007	Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA	University of California Press
The Power of Privilege: Yale and America’s Elite Colleges	Soares, Joseph A	2007	Stanford, CA	Stanford University Press
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates	Golden, Daniel	2006	New York, NY	Crown Publishing
College Unranked: ending the college admissions frenzy	Thacker, Lloyd	2005	Cambridge, MA	Harvard University Press
Choosing Students: Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century	Camara, Wayne & Kimmel, Ernest W	2005	Mahwah, NJ	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America	Elliot, Norbert	2005	New York, NY	Peter Lang
The Chosen: the Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton	Karabel, Jerome	2005	Boston, MA	Houghton Mifflin
Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions	Zwick, Rebecca (Ed.)	2004	New York, NY	RoutledgeFalmer
Beyond the Big Test: Noncognitive Assessment in Higher Education	Sedlacek, William	2004	San Francisco, CA	John Wiley & Sons
Kill the Messenger	Phelps, Richard	2003	New Brunswick, NJ	Transaction Publishers
Fair Game?: the Use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education	Zwick, Rebecca	2002	New York, NY	RoutledgeFalmer
The Gatekeepers: inside the admissions process of a premier college	Steinberg, Jacques	2002	New York, NY	Viking
The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action	Popham, James W	2001	Alexandria, VA	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools	Kohn, Alfie (author) and Bridges, Lois (ed.)	2000	Portsmouth, NH	Heinemann
The Big Test: the Secret History of the American meritocracy	Lemann, Nicholas	1999	New York, NY	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
None of the Above: the truth behind the SATs	Owen, David & Doerr, Marilyn	1999	Lanham, MD	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Standardized Minds: the High Price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it	Sacks, Peter	1999	Cambridge, MA	Perseus Books
The Shape of the River: long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions	Bowen, William G., and Bok, Derek Curtis	1998	Princeton, NJ	Princeton University Press
The College Admissions Mystique	Mayher, Bill	1998	New York, NY	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Mismeasure of Man	Gould, Stephen J	1996	New York, MY	Norton
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life	Herrnstein, Richard & Murray, Charles	1994	New York, NY	Free Press
Tyranny of Testing	Hoffmann, Banesh	1978	Westport, CT	Greenwood Press
The College Board; its first fifty years	Fuess, Claude M	1950	New York, NY	Columbia University Press
A Study of Error	Brigham, Carl C	1932	New York, NY	The College Entrance Examination Board