English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy by Menken, Kate

English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781853599972)

Vendor: Kate Menken
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Format: Paperback
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English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy by Menken, Kate

English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy

$34.95
English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy by Menken, Kate

English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy

$34.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.



Author: Kate Menken
ISBN-10: 1853599972
ISBN-13: 9781853599972
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2008
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 261
By Kate Menken
By Kate Menken
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Kate 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.

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