VUE 15: Author Biographies

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VUE Number 15, Spring 2007

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Author Biographies

Margarita Calderón

Margarita Calderón is a professor at the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University. She has taught ESL and bilingual classes in elementary, middle, and high schools, has been a bilingual program director, and has taught graduate courses on educational leadership/administration and bilingual teacher education. Calderón's publications include teachers' manuals, journal articles, and books. She is co-principal investigator for the NICHD study on the transition from Spanish reading into English reading. Calderón directs the El Paso Adult Bilingual Curriculum Institute, and has recently been appointed to the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth.

> VUE 15 Article: What Do We Mean by "Quality Instruction" for Adolescent English-Language Learners?

William Celis III

William Celis III is an assistant professor of journalism at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California. Bill is a former education correspondent for The New York Times and a former reporter and columnist in the New York, San Francisco and Dallas bureaus of The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Battle Rock: The Struggle Over A One-Room School in America's Vanishing West which chronicles the influx of urban migration to the rural West and the resulting rise of the one-room school. His writings about education have also appeared in the American Prospect magazine, The Boston Sunday Globe, Education Week, The New York Times Week in Review and Teacher magazine.

> VUE 15 Article: Struggling to Open Doors and Minds

Lorna Fast Buffalo Horse

Lorna Fast Buffalo Horse is the Principal of Spanish English International School (SEIS), a small school on the Roosevelt Campus of Portland (Oregon) Public Schools. Her 19-year career has included teaching and administrative work at grades K-12, adult education, and as an Adjunct Professor of ESOL Methods for Lewis and Clark College and Portland State University graduate programs. In 2004, she co-founded SEIS, a two-way bilingual, international high school, configured from a former comprehensive high school. SEIS has a population of over 85 percent students living in poverty, 82 percent students of color, 40 percent ELL students, and 75 percent juniors and seniors taking at least one AP or college-credit class and 85 percent parent involvement.

> VUE 15 Article: Making High School Work and Changing the World for Immigrant Students: The SEIS Approach

Eugene E. García

Eugene E. García is vice president for education partnerships at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton College of Education. Before coming to ASU in 2002, he was a Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. In May 2003, he was given the additional role as Vice President for University-School Partnerships. In this role his task is to strengthen K-12 education in the state of Arizona by linking together the University and private sector for distribution of fiscal and human resources. Dr. García has published extensively in the area of language teaching and bilingual development. 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 1993-1995.

> VUE 15 Article: Immigrant Children in U.S. Schools

Alina Newman

Alina Newman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Literacy Studies and Curriculum & Teaching Departments at Hofstra University. She is also a full-time teacher of English as a Second Language in Long Island, N.Y. She has taught Bilingual Education and ESL in both New York City and Long Island elementary schools since 1972. In addition, Alina has conducted many workshops with Latino families on issues of acculturation, parent expectations and schooling. Alina's research interests include the sociohistorical, cultural and linguistic aspects of immigrant learners in the United States, and NCLB's impact on schooling and assessment on children of immigrants. Alina and her family arrived from Cuba in 1960. She has resided in Puerto Rico, New York City, and Long Island ever since.

> VUE 15 Article: Stories of War and Schooling: The Children Left Behind

Robert Rothman

Robert Rothman is responsible for writing Institute publications and editing the Institute's quarterly journal Voices in Urban Education, a "roundtable-in-print" designed to air diverse viewpoints and share new knowledge on vital issues in urban education. He has written for numerous education publications and organizations and was a reporter and editor for Education Week. He was also a senior project associate for Achieve, a study director for the National Research Council, and the director of special projects for the National Center on Education and the Economy. Bob holds a BA in political science from Yale University. He is the author of Measuring Up: Standards, Assessment and School Reform and numerous book chapters and articles on testing and education reform.

> VUE 15 Article: Educating Newcomers



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