Just a couple days after it appeared, the American Heritage Dictionary revised its definition of 'anchor baby'. The original definition simply listed the term as if it were an objective word, like defining any other word. The revised definition describes it as "a disparaging term for a child born to a noncitizen mother...". More from Southern California Public Radio.
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I am a professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, and director of the Curriculum & Instruction doctoral program. I have served as an associate editor at Child Development, Applied Psycholinguistics, and an editor at Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. I was a bilingual teacher in Detroit, MI and have worked in district, state, and nonprofit settings. I work with bilingual learners from multilingual homes in K-8 settings, thinking about language use and development, cross-linguistic relations, instructional interventions, and teacher practice. I've published a bunch of articles and book chapters, and have developed language and reading curricula. I always work in close collaboration with teachers to facilitate the translation of research to practice.
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