These are drafts and fragments that are unlikely to be developed further in the near future.

• "Can there be a culture that does not disable?"
• "What might we mean by 'multiple languages or literacies?" Paper for the 2003 meeting of AERA
• "Playing with authority": proposed session for the 2003 meeting of AERA
• The culture of American education: Beijing 2001
• "The culture of culture in anthropology and education," invited session ( AAA meeting Fall 2000)
• "A dilemma for American middle class families: deconstructing priviledge" (Emory lecture - Fall 2000)
• "How many doctors are there in this house?" (1999)
• Talk and topic (with C. Hill) in press