About the author
For 16 years, Kathleen Callaghan has been teaching and working with immigrant adolescent students who are learning English in Baltimore City Schools. She works at Digital Harbor High School in the Federal Hill neighborhood of the city, where a dedicated staff and a professional technology program provide urban students with excellent learning opportunities. Every day Kathleen is faced with fascinating and challenging issues regarding her immigrant students’ educational, language, and literacy needs. With graduate degrees in linguistics and second language teaching, Kathleen believes in the power of language as both study and practice to grow and advance one’s self and understanding of the world. In her doctoral studies, Kathleen has explored the effects of legal status and immigration reform on the educational attitudes and trajectories of her adolescent students.
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