Patriann SmithPatriann Smith is a Faculty Member in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of research include examining challenges in the cross-cultural literacy, language and assessment practicesof adolescent immigrant multilingual learners and international multilingual teachers. Across these areas, Patriann is concerned with the ways in which standard and localized language ideologies, language discrimination, and assumptions embedded in discussions of linguistic human rights affect cross-cultural literacy practice and assessment. Patriann has taught internationally in the Caribbean and the United States is an International Reading Association (IRA) Hall of Fame Young Scholar (2013-2016) and a recipient of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Language and Social Processes (LSP) Emerging Scholar Award (2015). Read More Read Less