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Books

Bascia, N., Unions in Teachers’ Professional Lives. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.
Cohen, D.K., M.W. McLaughlin & J.E. Talbert (eds.), Teaching for Understanding: Challenges for Policy and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1993.
Davidson, A.L., The Politics and Aesthetics of Ethnicity: Making and Molding Identity in Varied Curricular Settings.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.
Hightower, A.M., M.S. Knapp, J.A. Marsh & M.W. McLaughlin (eds.), School Districts and Instructional Renewal.  New York: Teachers College Press, 2003.
Little, J.W. & M.W. McLaughlin (eds.), Teachers’ Work: Individuals, Colleagues, and Contexts. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
McLaughlin, M.W. & I. Oberman, Teacher Learning: New Policies, New Practices, New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
McLaughlin, M.W. & J.E. Talbert, Professional Communities: and the Work of High School Teaching.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
McLaughlin, M.W., J.E. Talbert & N. Bascia (eds.), The Contexts of Teaching in Secondary Schools: Teachers’ Realities.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1990.
Phelan, P.K. & A.L. Davidson (eds.), Renegotiating Culture Diversity in American Schools. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
Phelan, P.K. & A.L. Davidson (eds.), Students’ Multiple Worlds: Navigating the Borders of Family, Peer, and School Cultures. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
Siskin, L.S., Realms of Knowledge: Academic Departments in Secondary Schools.  New York: Falmer Press, 1994.
Siskin, L.S. & J.W. Little (eds.), The Subjects in Question: Department Organization in the Comprehensive High School.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.

Articles and Book Chapters

  Bascia, N., “Teachers’ Evaluations of Unions.” Journal of Education Policy, 5(4):301-313, Oct-Dec 1990.
  Davidson, A.L., “Border Curricula and the Construction of Identity: Implications for Multicultural Theorists.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 7(4):335-349, 1994.
  Davidson, A.L., “Students’ Situated Selves: Ethnographic Interviewing as Cultural Therapy,” in Spindler & Spindler (eds.), Pathways to Cultural Awareness: Cultural Therapy with Teachers and Students.  Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, 1994.
  Davidson, A.L., H.C. Yu & P.K. Phelan, “The Ebb and Flow of Ethnicity: Constructing Identity in Varied School Settings.” Educational Foundations, 7(1):65-87, Winter 1993.
  Grossman, P.L. & S.S. Stodolsky, “Considerations of Content and the Circumstances of Secondary School Teachings,” in Darling-Hammond, L. (ed.), Review of Research in Education, Vol. 20, 1994.
  Hamilton, L.S., E.M. Nussbaum., H. Kupermintz, J. Kerkhoven & R.E. Snow, “Enhancing the Validity and Usefulness of Large-Scale Educational Assessments: II. NELS:88 Science Achievement,” American Educational Research Journal, (32)3:555-581, Fall 1995.
  Hannaway, J. & J.E. Talbert, “Bringing Context into Effective Schools Research: Urban-Suburban Differences.” Educational Administrator Quarterly, 29(2):164-186, May 1993.
  Kupermintz, H., M. Ennis, L. Hamilton, J.E. Talbert & R.E. Snow, “Enhancing the Validity and Usefulness of Large-scale Educational Assessments: I. NELS:88 Mathematics Achievement.” American Educational Research Journal, 32(3):525-554, Fall 1995.
  Kupermintz, H. & R.E, Snow, “Enhancing the Validity and Usefulness of Large-Scale Educational Assessments: III. NELS:88 Mathematics Achievement to 12th Grade.” American Educational Research Journal, 34(1):124-150, 1997.
  Lichtenstein, G., M.W. McLaughlin & J.L. Knudsen, “Teacher Empowerment and Professional Knowledge,” in Lieberman, A. (ed.), Changing Contexts of Teaching, NSSE 91st Yearbook: Part 1, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992.
  Lieberman, A. & M.W. McLaughlin, “Networks for Educational Change: Powerful and Problematic.” Phi Delta Kappan, 73(9):673-677, May 1992.
pdf Little, J.W., “Professional Community in Comprehensive High Schools: The Two Worlds of Academic and Vocational Teachers,” in Little, J.W. & M.W. McLaughlin (eds.), Teachers’ Work, New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
  Little, J.W., “Subject Affiliation in High Schools that Restructure,” in Siskin, L.S. & J.W. Little (eds.), The Subjects in Question.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
  McLaughlin, M.W., “Educational Policy and Educational Practice,” In Alkin, M. (ed.), American Educational Research Association Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Sixth Edition.  Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992.
  McLaughlin, M.W., “Enabling Professional Development: What Have We Learned?” in Lieberman, A. & L. Miller (eds.), Staff Development: New Demands, New Realities, New Perspectives. New York: Teachers College Press, 1990.
  McLaughlin, M.W., “How District Communities Do and Do Not Foster Teacher Pride.” Educational Leadership, 50(1):33-35, September 1992.
pdf McLaughlin, M.W., “The Rand Change Agent Study Revisited: Macro Perspectives and Micro Realities,” in Odden, A. (ed.), Educational Policy Implementation. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991. Also in Educational Researcher, 19(9), December 1990.
  McLaughlin, M.W., “Strategic Sites for Teachers’ Professional Development,” in Grimmett, P.P. & J.P. Neufeld (eds.), Teacher Development and the Struggle for Authenticity. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.
pdf McLaughlin, M.W., “What Matters Most in Teachers’ Workplace Context?” in Little, J.W. & M.W. McLaughlin (eds.), Teachers’ Work, New York:Teachers College Press, 1993.
pdf McLaughlin, M.W. & J.E. Talbert, “How the World of Students and Teachers Challenges Policy Coherence,” in Fuhrman, S.H. (ed.), Designing Coherent Education Policy: Improving the System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
pdf McLaughlin, M.W., J.E. Talbert, J. Kahne & J. Powell, “Constructing a Personalized School Environment,” Phi Delta Kappan, 72(3):230-234, November 1990.
  Nussbaum, M., L.S. Hamilton & R.E, Snow, “Enhancing the Validity and Usefulness of Large-Scale Educational Assessments: IV. NELS:88 Science Achievement to 12th Grade.” American Educational Research Journal, 34(1):151-173, 1997
  Phelan, P.K. & A.L Davidson, “Looking Across Borders: Students’ Investigation of Family, School and Peer Worlds as Cultural Therapy,” in Spindler & Spindler (eds.), Pathways to Cultural Awareness: Cultural Therapy with Teachers and Students.” Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, 1994.
pdf Phelan, P.K., A.L. Davidson & H.T. Cao, “Speaking Up: Students’ Perspectives on School.” Phi Delta Kappan, 73(9), May 1992.
pdf Phelan, P.K., A.L. Davidson & H.T. Cao, “Students’ Multiple Worlds: Negotiating the Boundaries of Family, Peer, and School Cultures.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 22(3):224-250, 1991.
pdf Phelan, P.K., A.L. Davidson & H.C. Yu, “Navigating the Psychosocial Pressures of Adolescence: The Voices and Experiences of High School Youth.” American Educational Research Journal, 31(2):415-447, Summer 1994.
pdf Raudenbush, S.W., B. Rowan & Y.F. Cheong, “Contextual Effects on the Self-Perceived Efficacy of High School Teachers.” Sociology of Education, 65:150-167, 1992.
pdf Raudenbush, S.W., B. Rowan & Y.F. Cheong, “Higher-Order Instructional Goals in Secondary Schools: Class, Teacher, and School Influences.” American Educational Research Journal, 30(3):523-553, Fall 1993.
  Raudenbush, S.W., B. Rowan & S.J. Kang, “A Multilevel, Multivariate Model for Studying School Climate in Secondary Schools with Estimation via the EM Algorithm.” Journal of Educational Statistics, 16(4):295-330, 1991.
  Rowan, B., S.W. Raudenbush & Y.F. Cheong, “Teaching as a Nonroutine Task: Implications for the Management of Schools.” Educational Administration Quarterly, 29(4):479, 1993.
  Rowan, B., S.W. Raudenbush & S.J. Kang, “Organizational Design in High Schools:  A Multilevel Analysis.” American Journal of Education, 99(2):238-266, February 1991.
  Rowan, B., S.W. Raudenbush & S.J. Kang, “School Climate in Secondary Schools:  A Multilevel Analysis,” in Raudenbush & Willms (eds.), Pupils, Classrooms, and Schools, 1991.
  Sato, N. & M.W. McLaughlin, “Context Matters: Teaching in Japan and in the United States.” Phi Delta Kappan, 73(5):359-366, January 1992.
  Scott, W.R. & R.C. Cohen, “Work Units in Organizations: Ransacking the Literature,” in Siskin, L.S. & J.W. Little (eds.), The Subjects in Question, New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
  Siskin, L.S., “Departments as Different Worlds: Subject Subcultures in Secondary Schools.” Educational Administration Quarterly, 27(2):134-160, May 1991.
  Siskin, L.S., “Is the School the Unit of Change? Internal and External Contexts of Restructuring,” in Grimmett, P.P. & J.P. Neufeld (eds.), Teacher Development and the Struggle for Authenticity. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.
  Siskin, L.S., “Subject Divisions,” in Siskin, L.S. & J.W. Little (eds.), The Subjects in Question, New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
  Siskin, L.S. & J.W. Little, “The Subject Department: Continuities and Critiques,” in Siskin, L.S. & J.W. Little (eds.), The Subjects in Question, New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
  Snow, R.E., “Aptitude Development and Talent Achievement,” in Colangelo, N. & S. Assouline (eds.), Talent Development: Proceedings from the 1993 Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development, Vol. 2. Dayton: Ohio Psychology Press, 1994.
  Snow, R.E. & M.Ennis, “Correlates of High Mathematical Ability in a National Sample of Eighth Graders,” in Benbow, C.P. & D. Lubinski (eds.), Psychometric and Social Issues Concerning Intellectual Talent. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
  Stodolsky, S., “A Framework for Subject Matter Comparisons in High Schools.” Teaching and Teacher Education, 9(4):333-346, 1993.
pdf Talbert, J.E., “Boundaries of Teachers’ Professional Communities in U.S. High Schools: Power and Precariousness of the Subject Department,” in Siskin, L.S. & J.W. Little (eds.), The Subjects in Question, New York: Teachers College Press, 1995.
pdf Talbert, J.E., “Constructing a School-Wide Professional Community: The Negotiated Order of a Performing Arts School,” in Little, J.W. & M.W. McLaughlin (eds.) Teachers’ Work, New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
pdf Talbert, J.E., “Primacy and Promise of Professional Development in the Nation’s Education Reform Agenda: Sociological Views,” in Borman, K.M., P.W. Cookson Jr., A.R. Sadovnik & J.Z. Spade (eds.), Implementing Educational Reform: Sociological Perspectives on Educational Policy, Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1996.
pdf Talbert, J.E., “Professionalism and Politics in High School Teaching Reform.” Journal of Educational Change, 3:339-363, 2002.
pdf Talbert, J.E. & M.W. McLaughlin, “Assessing the School Environment: Embedded Contexts and Bottom-Up Research Strategies,” in S.L. Friedman & T.D. Wachs (eds.) Measuring Environment Across the Life Span, Washington DC: American Psychological Association, March 1999.
pdf Talbert, J.E. & M.E. McLaughlin, “Professional Communities and the Artisan Model of Teaching.” Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, Vol. 8 (3-4), 2002.
pdf Talbert, J.E. & M.W. McLaughlin, “Teacher Professionalism in Local School Contexts.” American Journal of Education, 102:123-153, Fall 1994.
  Talbert, J.E., M.W. McLaughlin & B. Rowan, “Understanding Context Effects on Secondary School Teaching.” Teachers College Record, 95(1):45-65, Fall 1993.

 Center Papers and Reports

pdf BASRC Phase I Report, Center for Research on the Context of Teaching, Stanford University School of Education, 2002. 
pdf Contexts That Matter For Teaching And Learning: Strategic Opportunities for Meeting the Nation’s Education Goals, Center for Research on the Context of Secondary School Teaching, Stanford University School of Education, 1993 and Dec. 1994.
pdf DeAngelis, K. & J.E. Talbert, Social Inequalities in High School Mathematics Achievement: Cognitive Dimensions and Learning Opportunities, Stanford University School of Education, 1995.
  Ennis, M., J. Kerkhoven & R.E. Snow, “Enhancing the Validity and Usefulness of Large-scale Educational Assessments.” Stanford University School of Education, 1993.
pdf McLaughlin, M.W. & J.E. Talbert, “Reforming Districts: How Districts Support School Reform.” Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, University of Washington, 2003
pdf McLaughlin, M.W. & J.E. Talbert, Social Constructions of Students: Challenges to Policy Coherence, pp 92 - 147, Stanford University School of Education, 1992.
  Talbert, J.E. et al., Goal Diversity Among U.S. High Schools: Trade-Offs with Academic Excellence, Stanford University School of Education, 1990.
  Talbert, J.E. & K. DeAngelis, “Inequalities in High School Students’ Access to Desirable Math Teaching Conditions.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meeting, Los Angeles, 1994.
pdf Talbert, J.E. & M. Ennis, "Teacher Tracking: Exacerbating Inequalities in the High School,” Center for Research on the Context of Teaching, Stanford University School of Education, 1990.
  Talbert, J.E. & R.R. Perry, “How Department Communities Mediate Mathematics and Science Reforms.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting, New Orleans, 1994.
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