Cindy A. Brantmeier is a Ph.D. candidate and an Associate Instructor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. Her research interests include second language reading, second language teacher training and program evaluation, and second language acquisition. Her dissertation research focuses on the relationship among readers' gender, passage content, comprehension and strategy use in reading Spanish as a foreign language. She may be contacted at cbrantme@indiana.edu.

James Crawford is an independent writer based in Washington, D.C., who specializes in education and language policy. His most recent book is Bilingual Education: History, Politics, Theory, and Practice (4th ed., Bilingual Educational Services, 1999; 800-448-6032). He maintains a Language Policy Web Site at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jwcrawford/ and may be reached at jwcrawford@compuserve.com.

Maria Cristina González is a faculty member in the Department of Child Development at El Paso Community College. She has worked in the area of emergent literacy for the last ten years, and has now turned to the problem of reconceptualizing early childhood education. She may be reached at mcgonz116@aol.com.

Michael D. Guerrero is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in Curriculum & Instruction and Multilingual Studies. His primary interests are language development and proficiency testing of bilingual education teachers as well as the language rights of minority communities. He may be contacted at mdguerrero@mail.utexas.edu.

Asako Hayashi is a doctoral candidate at Boston University, School of Education. Her interest is bilingualism and bilingual education, specifically, attitudes of bilingual individuals toward bilingualism. She has published articles in the field of bilingual education and teaching Japanese as a second language. She has currently been working for her dissertation to investigate comparison of attitudes of children in different types of bilingual education programs. Her homepage is at http://web.tomio.com/hayashi/. She may be reached at asakoh@bu.edu.

Ana Huerta-Macías is an Associate Professor of Education at New Mexico State University. Her areas of interest are literacy and adult literacy. In addition, Ana has been involved in many local, state, national and international associations that advocate for bilingual education, adult learning, literacy, and issues affecting higher education. She may be reached at amacias@aol.com.

Kellie Rolstad received her Ph.D. from UCLA in June, 1998, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University, where she also teaches multicultural education and elementary language arts methods. Her interests include two-way immersion programs, bilingual curriculum development, and sociolinguistics. Her homepage is at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/people/rolstad/kellie.html. She may be reached at rolstad@asu.edu.