<HTML>There are methods of qualitative research, of which ethnography is only one example, which do not rely on quantitaive, numbers crunching techniques. These are valid and important methods of research. Most school-based and classroom-based action research in education, for example, rely on qualitative research techniques. There are journals and listservs dedicated entirely to the subject of qualitative research. But what distinguishes qualitative research from journalism is that it has its own methods and protocols, and it is not clear to me that Wolfe followed these protocols and methods. It is important to distinguish between the two issues. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>