Richard Durán
(University of California, Berkeley)

Research Areas and Interests -Learning and instruction;assessment; construction of culture through interaction; and bilingualism

Durán, R.P., Escobar, F. & Wakin, M. (In press). Improving classroom instruction for Latino elementary school students: Aiming for college. In M. Yepes (Ed.) Proceedings of the ETS Invitational Conference on Latino Education.

Durán, R.P. & Szymanski, M. (1995). Cooperative learning interaction and construction of activity. Discourse Processes.

Durán, R.P. (1994) Cooperative learning for language minority students. In R. DeVillar, C. Faltis, and & J. Cummins (Eds.) Cultural Diversity in Schools: From Rhetoric to Practice. Albany: SUNY Press.

Durán, R.P. (1994). Hispanic student achievement. In M. Justiz & L. Bjork (Eds.), Minorities in Higher Education. New York: Macmillan.

Pedro Paz
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Pedro Paz is a Graduate Student in the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara. His area of research currently looks at the area of Family Literacy with a particular interest on family as a source of literacy learning. His present research involvement is funded through a research grant from the Center for Research on Education Diversity and Excellence.