School activities surrounding Christmas can have unintentional negative consequences like reinforcing commercialism, focusing on "good" and "bad" behavior and isolating students who don't celebrate the holiday.
Lilia E. Sarmiento, a scholar and expert in biliteracy, shares a personal story about the challenges and joys — and ultimate effectiveness — of bilingual education.
Anthony Godby Johnson is a writer who lives in New York City. His memoir, A Rock and a Hard Place, was published in 1993 (Signet). He writes a monthly column for the Gregory House Gazette, an AIDS care newsletter published in Honolulu.