Yvonne S. Freeman, Ph.D., and David E. Freeman, Ph.D., are professors in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Brownsville. Yvonne is a professor of bilingual education and David is a professor of reading. They are interested in literacy education for English language learners.

In addition to doing staff development with districts around the country, they present regularly at international, national, and state conferences. They have published articles on the topics of second language teaching, bi-literacy, bilingual education, and second language acquisition.

They have coauthored a number of books, including Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish and English in Bilingual and Dual Language Classrooms; Dual Language Essentials for Teachers and Administrators; Closing the Achievement Gap: How to Reach Limited-Formal-Schooling and Long-Term English Learners; Between Worlds: Access to Second Language Acquisition; and Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms.