Dr. Yolanda De La Cruz is a
Professor of Mathematics Education at Arizona State
University. Her research focuses on the
mathematics achievement among English language learners, on the
role of language in theories of academic achievement differences
among language minority students, and education policy related
to English Language Learners in U.S. schools. Dr. De La Cruz is
editor of the nationally acclaimed book, Volume. 4:
Changing the faces of mathematics: Perspectives on
Latinos, published by the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics. Examples of her work appear in
Teaching Children Mathematics, Hispanic
Journal of Behavioral Sciences, and in edited
collections. In 1997, she was selected as a grant recipient of
the National Science Foundation and the McDonnell Foundation. De
La Cruz has given numerous invited talks in the U.S. and abroad,
including a plenary address at last year's meeting of the
California Mathematics Council, and has served as a visiting
research scholar at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, the
Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, and at
the Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. She received her doctorate
in math education is from the University of California at
Berkeley in 1991.