Sandra Mercuri is the Director of the TESOL program and the
Biliteracy/Cross Cultural program at Fresno Pacific University.
She currently is working on a doctorate degree and teaches language
development, critical pedagogy, and methodology courses in the Language,
Literacy, and Culture department. She previously coauthored two other Heinemann
books with Yvonne and David Freeman: Dual
Language Essentials (2004) and Closing
the Achievement Gap (2002).