Her research interests include alternative approaches to traditional U.S. edcuation and curriculum, and student resistance in schools. Recent publications include "Flexibility, arrogance and humility in the classroom: Rising above the focus-obscurity framework in Education, and (with F. Peterman, K. Stakich, and D. Caputo) A Patchwork Quilt of Change: Case Study of Brentmoor Elementary School. (Ohio Department of Education).