Education professor's new book a resource for teaching culturally diverse learners Educators of culturally diverse learners have a powerful new resource packed into a 192-page book co-authored by Socorro Herrera, Kansas State University College of Education professor and director of the Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy. Herrera was the lead author of "Equity in School-Parent Partnerships: Cultivating Community and Family Trust in Culturally Diverse Classrooms," which was published and released Nov. 30 by Teachers College Press in New York. The book was co-authored by Lisa Porter, assistant professor of sociology at James Madison University, and Katherine Barko-Alva, assistant professor and director of the ESL/bilingual education program at the William & Mary School of Education.