Kerckhoff is one of four academics from Stanford University, along with Gunnar Carlsson, Ralph Cohen, and R. James Milgram, who were instrumental in developing the controversial California Mathematics Academic Content Standards for the State Board of Education.
Selected publications
Kerckhoff, Steven P. (1983). "The Nielsen realization problem". Annals of Mathematics. 2nd series. 117 (2): 235–265. doi:10.2307/2007076. JSTOR 2007076. MR 0690845.
Kerckhoff, Steven P.; Thurston, William P., Noncontinuity of the action of the modular group at Bers' boundary of Teichmüller space.Inventiones Mathematicae100 (1990), no. 1, 25–47.
Kerckhoff, Steven; Masur, Howard; Smillie, John, Ergodicity of billiard flows and quadratic differentials.Annals of Mathematics (2) 124 (1986), no. 2, 293–311.
Cooper, Daryl; Hodgson, Craig D.; Kerckhoff, Steven P. Three-dimensional orbifolds and cone-manifolds. With a postface by Sadayoshi Kojima. MSJ Memoirs, 5. Mathematical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 2000. x+170 pp. ISBN 4-931469-05-1
Hodgson, Craig D.; Kerckhoff, Steven P., Rigidity of hyperbolic cone-manifolds and hyperbolic Dehn surgery.Journal of Differential Geometry48 (1998), no. 1, 1–59.
References
Big Business, Race, and Gender in Mathematics Reform, by Steven Krantz (ISBN 0-8218-1398-6).
Excerpt from this book.
Letter from Kerckhoff, Wayne Bishop, Jane Friedman, and Yat-Sun Poon, to California State Curriculum Commission and California State Board of Education, dated November 21, 2000