Last week was the first in the new semester. One of the courses that I am teaching this term is Review of Research in Art Education. This is a required course all students in our master's program. The homework between weeks one and two was to read Koroscik and Kowalchuk's chapter Reading and Interpreting Research Journal Articles and the related appendices (reprints from Studies) in the NAEA publication Research Methods and Methodologies Art (La Pierre & Zimmerman, 1997) and to come to class with three questions discussion. When the questions were shared, it became obvious that this group of fledgling graduate students wanted to initiate some form of dialogue with those that they perceive as writing for them. It seems to me that many established scholars and researchers also appreciate the opportunity dialogue and over the past few issues a few small but important changes have been made to the pages of Studies. We are now printing a contact address the authors of each paper. I hope that some of our authors are being contacted by readers, my students included, who want to congratulate, argue, clarify, develop implications practice, or possibly even collaborate in further related work. Typically Studies has provided a of published Commentary. For example, in the last issue (40:1) Jeffrey Patchen and Mary Ann Stankiewicz were specifically invited to respond to A Survey of Graduate Study in Art Education by Tom Anderson, Elliot Eisner, and Sally McRorie. In addition, Elliot Eisner was invited to editorialize on the contributions of Leilani Lattin Duke and Harold Williams to the Getty Institute the Arts. But please don't wait to be invited. The astute will have noticed that Instructions Authors of Commentaries has now been set off on its own as a clearly identifiable sidebar on the second page of each issue. In this issue the notion of forum has been extended into the book review section. Patricia Stuhr and her faculty colleagues at the Ohio State University share their group reaction to my Celebrating Pluralism: Art, Education, and Cultural Diversity (Chalmers, 1996). Although their review (submitted to Peter Smith, the Book Review Editor, and recommended by him publication) is presented as a letter to me, it is written so that others can also join the conversation. I posit that discipline-based art education and multicultural art education can be compatible, but what do you think? Should we celebrate pluralism or differences? Does it have to be either one or the other? Are there universal moral values? Is cultural relativism a problem? What do we do about value conflicts? Where do you stand on the issue of art education social change? …