• Our alumni
• Alumni support
• Graduate school partnerships
• Employer partnerships
• Alumni Summits
• Alumni Leadership Initiatives
• One Day - Alumni Magazine

• Corps and Alumni
• Donors
• Employers & Grad Schools
• Family and Friends
• Media
• Potential Staff

Alumni Work

By Jocelyn Noya Quintana (Miami-Dade '05)

War or Common Cause?: A Critical Ethnography of Language Education Policy, Race, and Cultural Citizenship
Information Age Publishing

War or Common Cause? by Kimberly S. Anderson (Bay Area '91) takes an indepth look at bilingual education policy in the United States. Using her experience as a teacher in a bilingual classroom, Anderson discusses how legislation and political discussions on the hot-button issue of immigration can affect the feeling of community at local schools. "When I used to tell people I taught bilingual education, they would either think it's really great or they would get pissed off," Anderson says. She quickly realized that the bilingual education debate was tied to immigration politics. Interested in how this could affect the classroom, Anderson began conducting research while teaching. "As the world becomes more globally integrated, it's only going to serve us to have our education become more multilingual and culturally fluent," she says. "We need to break the mold of having kids fit into our old way of doing things." Anderson earned her doctorate from the University of Texas in Austin and is now a senior policy research analyst at the SERVE Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she acts as a liaison to the Georgia Department of Education.

You're Accepted: Lose the Stress. Discover Yourself. Get Into the College That's Right For You.
Kaplan Publishing

Much more than a typical "how-to" manual for college applicants, You're Accepted by Katie Malachuk (Bay Area '96) is a young person's guide to self-discovery. Malachuk, a Harvard grad with a Stanford MBA, works both as a college admissions consultant and a yoga instructor, and she draws upon her myriad experiences to offer straightforward, relatable advice. The college application process, Malachuk says, can be an exceptional opportunity for personal growth: a time to meditate on one's natural talents, nurture one's gifts, and get in touch with one's basic values. The key, she says, is to follow your bliss. "Most people think that applying to college is about becoming who schools want you to be," Malachuk says. "But actually, it's a unique opportunity to celebrate the real you."

Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law
W.W. Norton & Company

Philip K. Howard's Life Without Lawyers describes a culture where, as one educator puts it, "Teachers no longer have the authority to run the classroom and parents are afraid to go on field trips for fear of being sued." Featuring research by Alison Kliegman (N.Y. '05), the book argues that bureaucracy in public schools is on the rise, to the detriment of classroom order and student achievement. Howard contends that standardized test scores, compulsory paperwork, and the enforcement of zero-tolerance policies have restricted educators' freedom to make choices essential to creating good schools. "In most American public schools, that freedom has been smothered by everthickening layers of bureaucracy," he writes. "Energetic teachers, not bureaucracy, are the building blocks of a healthy school culture."