Lindsey Brown

Director of Institutional Assessment and Accreditation

I Serve in...

Leadership Accreditation

Education

• PhD Education Policy and Program Evaluation, Arizona State University
• MEd Global Education, Arizona State University
• BA Social Studies Education, Anderson University

Career Accomplishments

Brown, L., & Pivovarova, M. (2025). Does the home literacy environment matter: Reading achievement of immigrant and emergent bilingual students in Canada. Language Teaching Research, 13621688251376945.

Brown, L. (2025). The (il) legitimacy of Arizona’s English-only language policies: an analysis of legitimacy in language policy discourse: Lindsey Brown. Language Policy, 24(2), 321-344.

Brown, L. (2024). Developing Cultural Pluralism in Adult English Language Learning Education: Toward a More Inclusive Classroom. In Empowering Teachers for Equitable and Sustainable Education (pp. 231-250). Routledge.

Brown, L. (2025). Evaluating the Effects of Reclassification from the Four-Hour English Language Development Block in Arizona: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University).

Tatto, M. T. & Brown, L. (Eds.). (2024). Empowering Teachers for Equitable and Sustainable Education: Action Research, Teacher Agency, and Online Community. Taylor & Francis.

Bernstein, K. A., Brown, L., Kaveh, Y. M., Yuhas, B., & Pazhouhi, S. (2025). The perils of policy workarounds: Lessons from Arizona’s return to “English-only” policy. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 24(3), 742-748.

Select Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations/Invitations

Brown, L. (2026) Evaluating the Effects of Reclassification from the Four-Hour English Language Development Block in Arizona: A Regression Discontinuity Approach. [Conference Presentation]. Association of Education Policy and Finance (AEFP). Chicago, IL, United States.

Brown, L. (2026) Evaluating the Effects of Reclassification from the Four-Hour English Language Development Block in Arizona: A Regression Discontinuity Approach. [Conference Invitation]. American Education Research Association (AERA). Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Brown, L. (2026) Evaluating the Effects of Reclassification from the Four-Hour English Language Development Block in Arizona: A Regression Discontinuity Approach. [Conference Invitation]. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Chicago, IL, United States.

Brown, L. (2025) The (il)legitimacy of Arizona’s English-only language policy: an analysis of legitimacy in language policy discourse. [Conference Presentation]. American Education Research Association Conference (AERA). Denver, CO, United States.

Tatto, M.T., with Brown, L. (2025, March). Empowering Teachers for Equitable and Sustainable Education: Action Research, Teacher Agency and Online Community. In M.T. Tatto (Chair) Book Launch. Comparative and International Education Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

Brown, L. (2024) The (il)legitimacy of Arizona’s English-only language policy: an analysis of legitimacy in language policy discourse. [Conference Presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Houston, TX, United States. https://www.xcdsystem.com/aaal/program/SqDM5Li/...
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Brown, L., Bernstein, K., Kaveh, Y., Yuhas, B., & Pazhouhi, S. (2024) The perils of relying on benevolent policy arbiters: Arizona’s return to 2000s-era English-only enforcement. [Conference Presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Houston, TX, United States. https://www.xcdsystem.com/aaal/program/SqDM5Li/...

Brown, L. (2023, April 13-16). Does the Home Literacy Environment Matter: Reading Achievement of Immigrant and Emergent Bilingual Students in Canada [Conference Presentation]. American Education Research Association Conference (AERA) Chicago, IL, United States, https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/2023-Annua...

Brown, L. (2023, March 23-25). Does the Home Literacy Environment Matter: Reading Achievement of Immigrant and Emergent Bilingual Students in Canada [Conference Presentation]. American Education Finance and Policy Conference (AEFP), Denver, CO, United States, https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/330...

Brown, L. (2023, February, 25). Toward a More Inclusive Classroom: Cultural Pluralism in Adult ELL Education [Conference Presentation]. Comparative and International Education Conference (CIES), Online, https://cies2023.org/

Brown, L. (2022). Toward a More Inclusive Classroom: Cultural Pluralism in Adult ELL Education [Conference Presentation]. Harvard Graduate School of Education, AOC Conference, Virtual Expo https://aocc.gse.harvard.edu/virtual-expo

About

I am married with two beautiful daughters. I enjoy reading, hiking, playing board and card games, and just spending time with my family.