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Booktalk: English Learners Left Behind, with Kate Menken

Title: Booktalk: English Learners Left Behind, with Kate Menken

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On Wednesday, April 9 Kate Menken will read and discuss English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (Buffalo: Multilingual Matters, 2008). This book explores explores how the high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become language policy in the United States. As testing determines curriculum and instruction, so Kate Menken tells the heart-felt tales of English language learners and their teachers.

Kate Menken received her Ed.D. from Teachers College in 2005, with her dissertation, When the Test is What Counts: How High-Stakes Testing Affects Language Policy and the Education of English Language Learners in High School, which won a first place dissertation award from the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Bilingual Education Menken is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society at the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, she was a teacher of English as a second language.

Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not limited to sign language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at (212) 678-3853 V/TTY, jaech@tc.edu.

Type: Lectures & Talks

Location: 306 Russell

Date & Time: 4/9/2008, 4:00:00 PM - 6:00:00 PM

Website: http://www.tc-library.org/

Contact: Jennifer Govan

Phone: 212-678-3022

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