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9. A paper co-authored with Virginia Richardson on the subject of determining quality of teaching, prepared at the invitation of the Board of International Comparative Studies in Education of the National Research Council/National Academies of Science, and submitted in August, 2000:
On Making Determinations of Quality in Teaching

8. An invited presentation to the Summer Institute of School Superintendents, a national conference for superintendents on critical national issues, held on Mackinac Island, Michigan, July, 2000:
What is the Difference between the North Star and Northfield? How Educational Goals and Ideals Become Confused

7. A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April, 1999. Presents a view of pedagogy that divides teacher conduct into three distinct, but highly interconnected, categories, tow of them candidates for universalization, and the remaining one a feature of the teacher as unique individual:
Method, Style, and Manner in Classroom Teaching

6. A paper presented at AERA, 1999, on how our Teacher Manner Project Research Team studied the manner of classroom teachers. This paper reports on various "indirect" means that teachers employ to cultivate the moral dispositions of their students.
Making Manner Visible

5. A chapter appearing in K. A. Sirotnik and R. Soder, Eds., The Beat of a Different Drummer (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 185-196. Using some of John Goodlad's ideas about the various roles of teachers, this chapter examines the teacher as instructor, steward to the school, informant to the community, citizen in a democracy, and transformational learner:
Teaching on Both Sides of the Classroom Door

4. A paper presented to the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society in 1998, and slated for publication in its Proceedings in 1999, this paper distinguishes between the factual claims about the state of democracy in the United States and the mythical robustness of views of democracy.
Democracy and Education: Are the Connections a Myth?

3. A presentation to the 1997 meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and subsequently revised as an invited paper for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society, this paper argues for decentralized governance of teacher preparation. It presents a conception of program accreditation different from the current, dominant model.
On Accountability and Accreditation in Teacher Education: A Plea for Alternatives

2. Chapter 4 from John I. Goodlad and Timothy J. McMannon, Eds., The Public Purpose of Education and Schooling (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997, pp. 55-71.
On Restoring Public and Private Life

1. An extensive analysis of conceptions of knowledge that appear in the research on teaching literature, particularly notions about the nature of knowledge held by teachers. Also includes an analysis of proposed differences between formal and practical knowledgfe, accompanied by the claim that the practical knowledge of teachers deserves consideration comparable to that given to formal, research knowledge. This paper appears as Chapter 1 of the Review of Research in Education, 20, edited by Linda Darling-Hammond, pages 3-56, Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association, 1994.
The Knower and the Known: The Nature of Knowledge in Research on Teaching