Kate Menken is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society of the CUNY Graduate Center. She is Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee and a Delegate of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. Her research interests include language education policies, bilingual education, and the experiences of multilingual learners in U.S. public schools (especially New York City). Her books are English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (Multilingual Matters, 2008); Negotiating Language Policies in Schools: Educators as Policymakers (with Ofelia García, Routledge, 2010); Common Core, Bilingual and English Language Learners: A Resource for Educators (with Guadalupe Valdés and Mariana Castro, Caslon, 2015), Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students: Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project (CUNY-NYSIEB, Routledge, 2020), and Overcoming the gentrification of dual language, bilingual, and immersion education: Solution-oriented research and stakeholder resources for real integration (with Garrett Delavan and Juan Freire, Multilingual Matters, 2024).

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