Brown, Jennifer.

"ERIC - The College Ladder: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education

for Success for All Students, Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education for Success for
All Students, 2006-Sep. American Youth Policy Forum, Sept. 2006.

I couldnt not find any specific information on Jennifer Brown as an author. I do know
that the database where I found my information ERIC is a government funded and
supported website that has thousands of educational articles from a plethora of different
sources. This particular article came from The American Youth Policy Forum and
discusses closing the gap of achievement between students.
This article is another secondary source. However, after reading and analyzing the article
I now no longer think that it pertains to what my topic is this is because I have simplified
my proposal to educations correlation with success. This article pertains more to being
successful within education.

Dewey, John. Education and Social Change. Bulletin of the American Association of
University Professors 23.6 (1937): 472474. Web
John Dewey is a very well-known Academic, Philosopher, and psychologist. He has
written many papers, thesis, and books, he is known mostly for being a psychologist he is
even credited as being one of the founders of Functional Psychology. Dewey was
passionate about social and educational reform during the 20th century. Dewey
encouraged reconstruction to education and supported experimental education. In the
bulletin Dewey is once again emphasizing the importance of education. Not the
standardized education
This is source is a secondary source and is very helpful when exploring my proposal. The
article helps me express that the education system we know is flawed and Dewey has
scientific and educational backing to express my point within my essay that maybe the
system is flawed. Deweys bulletin suggest that there is more to education then what is in
schools.

Leef, George. "More College Does Not Beget More Economic Prosperity." Forbes. Forbes
Magazine, 6 Jan. 2014. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.
The author George Leef is a regular contributor to Forbes and has written many articles
for the magazine over the years. Leefs articles usually pertain to higher education within
America. On Leefs biography page in the magazine there is this quote I write on the
damage that big government does, especially to education, this quote highlights the main
points Leef makes in his articles. The article More College Does Not Beget More
Economic Prosperity, Leef emphasizes the point that more people getting a higher
education does not necessarily correlate to a better economy. The article utilizes Egypt
and Occupy Wall Street as examples of situations where there are multiple numbers of

graduates but there is still not job creation and the economy in turn suffers. The article
relate to my topic by continuing the discussion of the question I proposed Is education
necessary for success? Leefs article helps add points of debate within my topic. Also,
the article helps narrow my topic to the American education system and the American
economy, whereas before it was a universal topic.
This article is a general internet source that comes from Forbes Magazine online. The
author George Leef has a strong negative bias that effects the readers viewpoint of the
topic, because of this I would like to do two things moving forward in my research: find a
counter argument to Leefs opinion on higher education and investigate more examples
and statistics that Leef does not go into very much detail on when discussing the
negatives of everyone having a higher education. The article provides a very basic
overview of the cons of the overproduction of college graduates and it has led me to want
to explore my topic further.
Price, Michael. "7 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Go To College and 4 Things To Do Instead." The
Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com
Michael Price is a frequent writer for the Huffington Post Business section. Price is an
entrepreneur, marketer, and author. In this article we see alternatives to the traditional
route that a majority of Americans take in order to get a job and be traditionally
successful. Price also implies that higher education doesnt necessarily teach you
everything you need to know in life.
This article is another secondary source. This source is one of my favorites that I found
for this project because it suggest other popular options other than just going the
traditional route.
Strauss, Steven. "The Connection between Education, Income Inequality, and Unemployment.
The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 02 Nov. 2011.
Steven Strauss is a frequent writer for The Huffington Post and writes about
everything from the economy to America at war. He is also a visiting professor at
Princeton University. The article has many statistics and facts supporting the idea
that education doesnt necessarily equate to a job. Included in the article are
unemployment rates and education attainment numbers, an interesting fact that I
saw in the article was the correlation between higher education and employment.
The numbers showed that the more specialized your education was the higher the
unemployment.
I used this article as my Primary Source, This article was influential on what I
decided to do for my essay. I found it really interesting that the more education
someone had the harder it was to get a job. I understand that this article is not
saying that there is no need to get an education, but it is implying that there is a
limit for which education is helpful. This article helped me create the ideas for my
essay part of this project because the numbers show that being highly educated
doesnt necessarily mean you will be successful.