ADELMAN, Clifford

ADELMAN, Clifford. American, b. 1942. Genres: Politics/Government, Social commentary, Education. Career: Sr. Associate, Office of Research, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1979-. Instructor and Lecturer, City College of New York, 1968-71; Visiting Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1972, 1973; Associate Dean for Academic Development and Research, and Associate Professor of Communications, William Paterson (State) College of New Jersey, Wayne, 1974-79. Publications: Generations: A Collage on Youthcult, 1972; No Loaves, No Parables: American Politics and the English Language, 1974; The Standardized Test Scores of College Graduates, 1985; Starting with Students, 1985; Performance and Judgment, 1988; A College Course Map, 1990, 2nd ed. as The New College Course Map, 1999; Light and Shadow on College Athletes, 1990; Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment, 1991; The Way We Are: The Community College as American Thermometer, 1992; Tourists in Our Own Land: Cultural Literacies and the College Cirriculum, 1992; Lessons of a Generation: Education and Work in the Lives of the High School Class of 1972, 1994; Leading, Concurrent, or Lagging: The Knowledge Content of Computer Science in Higher Education and the Labor Market, 1997; Women and Men of the Engineering Path, 1998; Answers in the Tool Box, 1999; A Parallel Postsecondary Universe, 2000. EDITOR: Assessment in American Higher Education, 1986; Signs and Tracers: Indicators of College Student Learning, 1989.