Ph.D., Language Behavior, Boston University, 1989. Director, Applied Linguistics Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts
–Boston.
Capeverdean Association Humanity Award, 2002. President’s Award for Public Service, 1999.

Author of Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know (1994); Critical Education in the New Information Age (1999); Dancing with Bigotry (2000); The Hegemony of English (2003).