1. Deborah Frett, “Fact or Fiction: Is Gen Y Lazy?” Huffington Post, April 22, 2010, www.huffingtonpost/deborah-frett/fact-or-fiction-is-gen-y_b_547883.html.
2. Mark Scott, “Retirement: Gen Y’s Empty Piggy Bank,” Bloomberg Businessweek, July 15, 2010, www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jul2010/pi20100715_116291.htm.
3. Jenny Anderson, “L.I. Inquiry on Cheating Now Covers Five Schools,” New York Times, November 9, 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/nyregion/sat-cheating-inquiry-on-long-island-expands-to-include-act.html.
4. James Ford, “DA: Teens Paid College Student Thousands to Take SATs,” WPIX 11, September 28, 2011, www.wpix.com/news/wpix-seven-arrested-in-sat-cheating-ring-20110927,0,3389576.story.
5. Gianna Palmer, “Students Prosecuted for Cheating on College Entrance Exam,” Reuters, November 22, 2011, www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/22/us-education-cheating-idUSTRE7AL2UT 20111122.
1. Curtis Eichelberger and Oliver Staley, “Rutgers Athletics Grow at Expense of Academics Unlike at Texas,” Bloomberg.com, Au-gust 16, 2011, www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-16/rutgers-boosting-athletics-at-expense-of-academics-fails-to-emulate-texas.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Mary Beth Marklein, “4-Year Colleges Graduate 53% of Students in 6 Years,” USA Today, June 3, 2009, www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-06-03-diploma-graduation-rate_N.htm.
1. Robert Applebaum, “Here’s a Demand: Forgive Student Loan Debt,” Guardian, October 3, 2011, www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/03/demand-forgive-student-loan-debt.
2. Mac McClelland, “Stat of the Day: Don’t-Lend-College-Students-Money Edition,” Mother Jones, October 5, 2011, motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/09/stat-day-dont-lend-college-students-money-edition.
3. Ezra Klein, “Who Are the 99 Percent?” Wonkblog, Washington Post, October 4, 2011, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/who-are-the-99-percent/2011/08/25/gIQAt87jKL_blog.html.
4. Peter J. Henning, “Crisis May Seem Criminal, but Try Making a Case,” DealBook (blog), New York Times, January 28, 2011, deal book.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/crisis-may-seem-criminal-but-try-making-a-case/.
5. Jesse Bricker et al., Surveying the Aftermath of the Storm: Changes in Family Finances from 2007 to 2009, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2011, p. 7, www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2011/201117/index.html.
6. Paul R. La Monica, “Big Bonuses Alive on Wall Street. Why?” The Buzz (blog), CNNMoney, October 18, 2011, money.cnn.com/2011/10/18/markets/thebuzz/index.htm.
7. Annalyn Censky, “Surging College Costs Price Out Middle Class,” CNNMoney, June 13, 2011, money.cnn.com/2011/06/13/news/economy/college_tuition_middle_class/index.htm.
8. Heidi Shierholz, “New College Grads Losing Ground on Wages,” Economic Policy Institute, August 31, 2011, www.epi.org/publication/new_college_grads_losing_ground_on_wages/.
9. Censky, “Surging College Costs.”
10. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Unemployment Demographics,” 2011, www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/demographics.
11. Mary Pilon, “Student-Loan Debt Surpasses Credit Cards,” Real Time Economics (blog), Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2010, blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/08/09/student-loan-debt-surpasses-credit-cards/.
12. “The Fraud at the Heart of Student Lending Exposed—the One Sentence Everyone Should Read,” Zero Hedge, October 18, 2011, www.zerohedge.com/news/fraud-heart-student-lending-exposed-one-sentence-everyone-should-read.
13. Catherine Rampell, “Many with New College Degree Find the Job Market Humbling,” New York Times, May 18, 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/business/economy/19grads.html.
1. Shelley Emling, “‘Boomerang’ Children: When the Nest Isn’t Empty Anymore,” New York Times, June 25, 2005, www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/your-money/24iht-mboom.html?pagewanted=all.
2. Mark Trumbull, “Boomerang Kids: Recession Sends More Young Adults Back Home,” Christian Science Monitor, November 29, 2009, www.csmonitor.com/Business/2009/1124/boomerang-kids-recession-sends-more-young-adults-back-home.
3. Christine Hassler, “Cockpit Parents: How They’re Flying 20-Somethings into the Ground,” Huffington Post, March 18, 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-hassler/cockpit-parents_b_836914.html.
1. U.S. Department of Education, “Highlights from PISA 2009: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Reading, Mathematics, and Science Literacy in an International Context,” National Center for Educational Statistics, December 2010, www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011004.
1. John Lauerman, “For-Profit Colleges Face State Crackdowns as U.S. Rules Delayed,” Bloomberg Businessweek, April 7, 2011, www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-07/for-profit-colleges-face-state-crackdowns-as-u-s-rules-delayed.html.
2. Chris Kirkham, “At Kaplan University, ‘Guerrilla Registration’ Leaves Students Deep in Debt,” Huffington Post, December 22, 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/kaplan-university-guerilla-registration_n_799741.html.
3. Chris Kirkham, “For-Profit College Recruiters Taught to Use ‘Pain,’ ‘Fear,’ Internal Documents Show,” Huffington Post, February 8, 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/08/for-profit-college-recruiters-documents_n_820337.html.
4. Ibid.
5. U.S. Department of Education, “Highlights from PISA 2009: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Reading, Mathematics, and Science Literacy in an International Context,” National Center for Educational Statistics, December 2010, www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011004.
6. Ibid.
1. U.S. Census Bureau, “Students Who Are Foreign Born or Who Have Foreign-Born Parents,” Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2012, www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0228.pdf.
2. Carola Suárez-Orozco et al., “Academic Trajectories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth,” Developmental Psychology 46, no. 3 (2010): 608.
1. Plato, The Republic, trans. Benjamin Jowett, available at Internet Classics Archive, classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html.