Kate Menken

Kate Menken is Professor of Linguistics and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Language Policy. Her research interests include language education policy, bilingual education, and educational policies and practices for bilingual students in the U.S. (especially New York City). Her books include 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), and a book edited by the entire CUNY-NYSIEB team entitled Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students: Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project (CUNY-NYSIEB, Routledge, 2020).

Her work also appears in journals such as International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language Policy, Theory into Practice, TESOL Quarterly, Educational Policy, Bilingual Research Journal, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, and International Multilingual Research Journal.

Further information can be found on her website: http://katemenken.org and Google scholar page.