Political attacks on liberal arts education:
Hunter Rawlings and Lillian Aoki in the Huffington Post, “ A College Education is about More Than a First Job” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hunter-r-rawlings-iii/college-education-value_b_2593826.html/ .
Media Treatments: “New and Noteworthy” Newsletter” January 2013 http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1109165/c3328410a6/520044277/76b428fcde/
The Spread of Liberal Arts Education Overseas:
Elizabeth Redden, “Liberal Arts go Dutch” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/08/netherlands-growth-liberal-arts-colleges-has-influenced-higher-ed-sector-whole
--“The Liberal Arts, Abroad” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/16/liberalarts
On “Useless” Knowledge:
Nicholas Jones “Liberal Arts, and the Advantages of Being Useless” http://www.academia.edu/2454947/Liberal_Arts_and_the_Advantages_of_Being_Uselesst
The Earliest Evidence for Liberal Education: http://www.wrobertconnor.com/earliest-evidence-for-liberal-education.html
High School Student Achievement in OECD 2009 PISA exams:
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2010/12/international-education-rankings-suggest-reform-can-lift-u-s/
Tabular form:
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/46643496.pdf
Adult “literacy”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
Critical thinking by field of study:
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
http://www.ssrc.org/workspace/images/crm/new_publication_3/%7Bfcfb0e86-b346-e111-b2a8-001cc477ec84%7D.pdf.