Andrew Hacker

Falling Behind?: Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent

by Michael S. Teitelbaum

Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2014–2015

by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics

A National Talent Strategy

a report by the Microsoft Corporation

The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

by Paul Taylor

Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972

edited by Peter V. Marsden

The Problem with Survey Research

by George Beam

Double Down: Game Change 2012

by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election

by John Sides and Lynn Vavreck

The Polarized Public? Why American Government Is So Dysfunctional

by Alan I. Abramowitz

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018

by Anthony P. Carnevale, Nicole Smith, and Jeff Strohl

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It

by Tony Wagner

Math Works: The Building Blocks of Success

by Achieve

The Race Between Education and Technology

by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008–2009 Edition

by the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

by Charles Murray

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950

by Avner Offer

Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years

by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout

In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture

by Deborah L. Rhode

Class Matters

by correspondents of The New York Times, with an introduction by Bill Keller

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

by Jerome Karabel