 During this same time period, he was also the editor-in-chief of the "Chicago Educational Weekly" from 1867 to 1868.In 1875, Phelps published two volumes of reports on the New Jersey and Minnesota normal schools, "The Teachers' Handbook" (1875, which was translated into Spanish for the use of the Argentine Republic).The following year he moved to Wisconsin, where he served as the vice-president of the first International Conference of Educators.