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Leonard Baca, EdD (1991*) Boulder, Colorado
EdD , University of Northern Colorado, 1974

Selected Publications:

• Language minority students: Literacy and educational reform, 1994
• Culturally and linguistically diverse teachers in special education: Repairing of the leaky pipeline,1993
• The Bilingual Special Education Interface (with H. Cervantes), Charles Merrill Co., 1989 Hoover, J.,Klingner, J.,Baca, L., Patton, J. Methods for Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Disabilities, Prentice Hall, May 2007
• Hoover, J.,Klingner, J., Baca, L. English Language Learners who struggle with reading. Corwin Press, March 2008
  
  

Awards: Special citation by U.S. Commissioner of Education for outstanding service on the National Advisory Committee on the Handicapped; served on President?s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.; Received the Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award from the Denver Chamber of Commerce.

Memberships: The National Association for Multicultural Education; The Council for Exceptional Children; National Association for Bilingual Education. American Educational Research Asssociation.

Special Interests: Staff development; bilingual special education; the education of culturally and linguistically different students.

Related Professional Activities: Professor of Education and Director of BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, University of Colorado.