Ronald F. Reed was Bebebsee Professor of Philosophy and Education at Texas Wesleyan University where he taught from 1979 until his untimely death in 1995 at the age of 52. He coordinated the Analytic Teaching Program in the University’s School of Education and co-founded the Creative and Critical Teaching Centre. He was a founding editor of The Texas Wesleyan Review and Analytic Teaching (now Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis). Reed was the first professor to receive Texas Wesleyan's Distinguished Scholar Award. He was President of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC) from 1987 to 1989 and in 1998 he participated in the first UNESCO “Meeting of Experts in Philosophy for Children” in Paris. Reed directed workshops in philosophy for children across the United States and in Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, and Spain. His best-known publications were When We Talk: Essays on Classroom Conversation (Analytic Teaching Press 1992), the volumes he co-edited with Ann Margaret Sharp, Studies in Philosophy for Children: Harry Sottlemeier’s Discovery (Temple University Press) and Studies in Philosophy for Children: Pixie (Ediciones de la Torre 1996), and the philosophy curricular novel Rebecca (Analytic Teaching Press 1989).