Youb Kim holds a doctorate from Michigan State University. She is Associate Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research focuses on teacher preparation and socio-emotional development for English language learners and racial/ethnic and linguistic minority students. 　Patricia H. Hinchey holds a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is Professor Emerita at Penn State and Fellow at the National Education Policy Center. She is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of numerous books and has published many journal articles on multiple topics.

• Foreword – Preface to the Second Edition – Imperatives: Why Should You Care? – Culture: Beyond Tacos and Lo Mein – Language: You Know More—and Less—Than You Think – Nurturing Literacy in English: Ways to Empower Students – Effective Instruction and Assessment: Good Teaching for ELLs Is Good Teaching – The Politics of ELL Policy and Programs: What Does It Mean to Be "American"? – Appendix – Index.

“What sets this effort apart from others is that it takes on the task of having future teachers reflect and reconsider their attitudes towards language-minority students and in doing so, moves readers from thinking of language-minority students as being those students to being our students. [...] [T]his book has the power to shift both future and current educators’ thinking on language-minority students.”—Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Education Review, October 2014