Richard Bates is a doctoral student at the University at Albany. He is also an instructor at Potsdam College in New York where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy education.

Owen F. Boyle

Owen F. Boyle is a professor of education in reading and language arts and has coordinated the Bilingual Program at San Jose State University. He has also served as assistant director of the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California, Berkeley.

Cory A. Buxton

Cory A. Buxton is an assistant professor of science education at the University of New Orleans. He was a Title VII Fellow in bilingual education while pursuing his doctoral degree at the University of Colorado. Dr. Buxton became interested in issues of equity and language in science education while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala from 1989-1992. His current research involves the study of scientific identity formation among culturally and linguistically diverse high school students in New Orleans.

Donna Eder

Donna Eder is a professor of Sociology at Indiana University. Her research interests include gender inequality in schools, adolescent culture, and cultural differences in teaching stories. She is the author of School Talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture and is currently working on a book comparing children’s interpretations of teaching stories from European, Kenyan, and Navajo cultures.

Veronica Lopez Estrada

Veronica Lopez Estrada is an assistant professor of language, literacy and culture at The University of Texas-Pan American at Edinburg. Her research interests include teacher preparation issues, resiliency research, qualitative research, and diversity issues in education. She resides in Edinburg with her husband, Edward, and their daughter, Megan Eve.

Tara Goldstein

Tara Goldstein is an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she teaches in the pre-service teacher education and graduate education programs. Her research and teaching interests include working toward equity in education, the education of immigrant students, and playwriting as critical ethnography.

Socorro Herrera

Socorro Herrera currently serves as an associate professor of Elementary Education at Kansas State and is co-director of the CLASSIC© ESL/Dual Language Program. Certified in elementary education, bilingual education, and school counseling, Dr. Herrera’s recent publications have appeared in the Bilingual Research Journal and the Journal of Research in Rural Education. Her recent research and teaching in Education has emphasized emergent literacy, reading strategies, the differential learning needs of second language learners, and mutual accommodation for language learning students.

Steven K. Lee

Steven K. Lee is an associate professor in the Teacher Education Department at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). His research and teaching interests are in bilingual education, second language acquisition, and international education. In the past three years, Dr. Lee has presented and been published in more than 20 national and international conferences and journals. He received his doctorate in education from the University of Southern California (USC) and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in linguistics from the University of Washington.

Xiaoxia Li

Xiaoxia Li is presently a teacher at King George International College in Vancouver, Canada. She earned her M.A. in ESL from the University of Hawaii and her B.A. in English from Soochow University. Her teaching career as well as her personal experiences have enabled her to have close contact with ESL learners and to perceive the significance of bilingual education for minority students.

Pam McCollum

Pam McCollum is a senior education associate at the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) in the division of Professional Development. Dr. McCollum has worked in bilingual education for over 20 years. She is an educational linguist who focuses on second language acquisition, English as a second language, and language assessment. She received her education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish, a master’s degree in teaching English as a second language, and a doctorate in educational psychology and applied linguistics.

Betty Merchant

Betty Merchant is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Her research focuses on educational policy, equity, student diversity and school leadership She has taught in public schools, preschool through high school, and in tribally controlled, Native American schools in the southwest.

Carla Meskill

Carla Meskill is an associate professor of Language in Education at the University at Albany. She directs the University’s Center for Electronic Language Learning and Research.

Jonathan Mossop

Jonathan Mossop is a doctoral student in Language in Education at the University at Albany where he is also an instructor in English as a second language.

Kevin Murry

Kevin Murry, co-director of CLASSIC© ESL/Dual Language Education at KSU, is currently an assistant professor of Foundations and Adult Education. His work in Educational Administration has focused on ESL/Dual Language programming in secondary public schools. Dr. Murry’s recent research has emphasized advocacy frameworks for culturally and linguistically diverse students, the linguistic and cross-cultural dynamics of ESL instruction, portfolio-based practicum experiences, and school restructuring for linguistic diversity. His recent publications have appeared in Educational Considerations and in the Journal of Continuing Higher Ed.

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