Contributors

Irma Almirall-Padamsee

A puertorriquena originally from the Bronx, NYC, the author earned her bachelor's degree in American Civilization and African American Studies from Brandeis University, and her master's and doctorate in Spanish Linguistics from Cornell University. She is a first generation college student and was a bilingual elementary school teacher in the Boston City School and in the Massachusetts Experimental School System. She has led minority and multicultural affairs for the last 15 years. She is presently the Associate Dean of Student Relations and Directory of Multicultural Affairs at Syracuse University.

Melisa Cahnmann

Melisa Cahnmann is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Linguistics program at the University of Pennsylvania. She and Dr. Nancy Hornberger have a forthcoming publication on mathematics and bilingual education in Educators for Urban Minorities. Currently, she works on her dissertation research: a critical ethnography of bilingual education in Philadelphia.

Ramona Maile Cutri

Ramona Maile Cutri is an assistant professor at Brigham Young University in the Department of Teacher Education. Her work focuses on the sociopolitical and spiritual dimensions of multicultural and bilingual/ESL education.

Scott Ferrin

Scott Ferrin is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations, and Adjunjct Professor of Law at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses in politics of education, educational law and policy, and a course in comparative language law and policy focusing on international issues in language of instruction. His research focuses on these areas and rural education issues.

Eugene E. Garcia

Dr. Eugene E. García is Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as a Senior Officer and Director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 1995, and he is conducting research in the area of effective schooling for linguistically and culturally diverse student populations.

Eva Midobuche

Eva Midobuche is an Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education in the College of Education at Arizona State University West. She teaches methodology courses in science, mathematics, and social studies for Bilingual and ESL education majors. Professor Midobuche has over 20 years of administrative and teaching experience in all areas of bilingual education.

Raymond V. Padilla

Raymond V. Padilla is a professor in the department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Arizona State University. He is the developer of HyperQual3 for qualitative data analysis and the co-author of a recent book, Debatable Diversity; Critical Dialogues on Change in American Universities (Roman and Littlefield, 1998).

Jesús José Salazar

Jesús José Salazar is a Senior Research Analyst with the Los Angeles Unified School District. He developed the plan for evaluating the district's programs for English Learners. He is a Title VII Fellow at the University of Southern California's School of Education work on his doctorate in educational research.

Ann-Marie Wiese

Ann-Marie Wiese is a Ph.D. cdandidate in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary areas of interest are federal educational policy and language minority students, early literacy and the language arts curriculum, and teachers' work and the contexts of teaching. She has taught first and second grade in a bilingual program.