Ofelia García, Professor of Urban Education, is a renowned scholar in her field. Her work on language and identity has had a significant impact on the understanding of key issues related to bilingual education and the education of language minorities. She has written many books and articles on all aspects of the subject. Her most recent book, Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective, was published in 2009 by Wiley/Blackwell, and she is the co-author of such books as Imagining Multilingual Schools; Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change; and The Multilingual Apple. García comes to the Graduate Center from Teacher’s College at Columbia University where she coordinated the graduate program in bilingual education and was co-director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies. Previously, she was dean of the School of Education at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures from the Graduate Center.

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