Fielding Graduate University

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Public issues and civic education
• Scholarly competencies
• Public opinion
• Applied social research.
  

Publications:

• Author of more than 30 magazine-length reports on public issues including immigration, income inequality, the culture wars, welfare, America's global role, senior entitlement programs, and health care reform, published Kendall-Hunt and McGraw-Hill
• The High School Dropout Crisis, Pew Charitable Trust. 2006.
• Chapter in The Deliberative Democracy Handbook, edited by John Gastil and Peter Levine (Jossey-Bass, 2005), chapter 3 (with John Dedrick and Taylor Willingham) "National Issues Forums: A Network of communities promoting public deliberation."
• The quality of American life in the 1980s, Report for the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the 1980s, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1981
• Marriage and Family Today, five editions, Random House and McGraw-Hill, first edition 1977
• Communes in the Counter Culture, William Morrow, 1972

Other Professional Activities:

• Associate, Kettering Foundation
• Creator and Executive Editor, Public Agenda Online
• Former Senior Vice President, Public Agenda Foundation
• Former Executive Editor, National Issues Forum.