Alec Ian Gershberg is associate professor at the New School's Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy in New York City, where he teaches courses on education policy, public and private finance, and international development. Currently, he is a senior education economist at the World Bank, on leave from the New School for the 2004-2005 academic year. Dr. Gershberg is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has previously served as a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and a visiting professor at Stanford University's School of Education. He has conducted extensive research and policy analysis on education reform in developing countries in Latin America and Africa. Dr. Gershberg's work on the United States has concentrated on immigrant education in New York and California. His articles have appeared in such publications as Comparative Education, Economics of Education Review, World Development, and the National Tax Journal.
Anne Danenberg is a research associate at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) whose work focuses on educational issues in California. Before joining PPIC in 1998, her research included projects on educational outcomes for immigrants, residential segregation in the Bay Area, and school population projections. While studying at Brown University, Ms. Danenberg held a teaching assistantship, was a recipient of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Demography Traineeship, and was associated with the Population Studies Training Center (PSTC).
Patricia Sánchez is an assistant professor of culture, literacy, and language in the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has also served as a research assistant at the Public Policy Institute of California and at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute), conducting research on immigrants and public schools. While studying at the University of California, Berkeley, she helped found the Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research and also worked as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Sánchez's current research focuses on globalization, transnationalism, and second-generation immigrant youth. Her most recent work, "At Home in Two Places: The Lives of Transnational Mexicana Youth," will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming book, Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border Landscape (University of Notre Dame Press). She has also published in the Australian journal, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
Beyond "Bilingual" Education, by Alec Ian Gershberg, Anne Danenberg, and Patricia Sánchez, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 256 pages, ISBN 0-87766-723-3, $29.50).
