Steven Jay Gross is Associate Professor of Educational Administration at Temple University in Philadelphia and a Senior Fellow at the Vermont Society for the Study of Education. He has also served as Editor of the ASCD Curriculum Handbook, Associate Professor of Education at Trinity College of Vermont, Chief of Curriculum and Instruction for the State of Vermont, Executive Director of the China Project Consortium, Curriculum and Staff Development Director for the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, and a high school social studies teacher in Philadelphia.