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----- Original Message ----- From: Kate Menken To: Kate Menken Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 11:11 PM Subject: new book Dear Friends & Colleagues, I would like to invite you to two upcoming events in New York City to publicize my new book, English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781853599972). Feel free to bring interested friends and colleagues. Light refreshments will be served at both events. Event: Institute for Language Education Policy Reception & Book Party at the AERA conference This event celebrates the work of the Institute and also the publication of this book Host: Multilingual Matters (publisher) Date: Wednesday, March 26 Time: 4-6 pm Location: Sortie 329 West 51st Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) New York, NY 10019 Event: Booktalk: English Learners Left Behind, with Kate Menken This event is a discussion about the book. Host: Teachers College Library Date: Wednesday, April 9 Time: 4-6 pm Location: Gottesman Libraries, Room 306 Russell Hall (inside the library) Teachers College, Columbia University 525 West 120th Street (between Broadway & Amsterdam) Further Information: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/calendar/index.htm?EventID=4759 Please RSVP for this event by sending an e-mail to Jennifer Govan: govan@tc.edu The book, based largely on research conducted in New York City high schools, is about the many ways that the federal education legislation "No Child Left Behind" impacts the instruction and educational experiences of immigrant students learning English in public schools. __________________ Kate Menken Assistant Professor, Linguistics and TESOL Research Fellow, Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society, CUNY Graduate Center e-mail: kmenken@gc.cuny.edu Queens College Department of Linguistics e-mail: kmenken@qc.cuny.edu Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/people/menken
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