Introduction to this special thematic issue / Xaโe Alicia Reyes and Diana I. Rios -- Imagining teachers : in fact and in the mass media / Xaโe Alicia Reyes [and] Diana I. Rios -- Missing in action : reconstructing hope and possibility among Latino students placed at risk / Maria D. Martinez -- Surviving the "perfect storm" : bilingual education policymaking in New York City / Luis O. Reyes -- Teachers' (re)constructions of knowledge : the other side of fieldwork / Xaโe Alicia Reyes -- When education, media, and technology converge, what do Latino/a students gain? / Dolores Valencia Tanno -- Latin Grammys and the ALMAs : awards programs, cultural epideictic, and intercultural pedagogy / Alberto Gonzโalez and Amy N. Heuman -- U.S. Latino audiences of "telenovelas" / Diana I. Rios