Language policies in the U.S., including matters relating to bilingual education, are tangled up with political tensions and ideology. All too often, the dialogue among educators and policymakers about what constitutes best practices for people learning English -- for whom we will use the term emergent bilinguals (EBs) (Garcia, Kleifgen and Falchi…

Currently, there is limited research examining the barriers that immigrant professionals experience when becoming a bilingual teacher in the United States. This study examines the trajectory of a Mexican national, trained as a teacher in his home country, who became a bilingual dual-language educator in a Central Texas school district. Drawing on…

In today's increasingly complex society, schools and communities must work in partnership to develop the foundations for a more just and equitable future. On the U.S./Mexico border, the University of Texas at El Paso's (UTEP) College of Education has long integrated schools, families, and community partners into its teacher education program to…