The Editor: Lourdes Diaz Soto is currently a Visiting Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Soto is also Associate Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University and is associated with the Applied Linguistics and Early Childhood Programs. A graduate of Hunter College, State University of New York and The Pennsylvania State University, she has published numerous articles in professional journals. In addition, she wrote Language, Culture, and Power: Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education (1997) and edited The Politics of Early Childhood Education (Peter Lang, 1999).