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Kate Menken is the Principal Investigator of a study being conducted with a team of researchers from RISLUS, which is entitled "Meeting the Needs of Long-Term English Language Learners in High School." This study is funded through a grant from the Office of English Language Learners of the New York City Department of Education. Click to read the Project Description of Phase I and/or the Project Description of Phase II in PDF format.
Click here for the long-term ELL website
Menken, K., Kleyn, T. & Chae, N. (manuscript under review). When Change is the Only Consistency: The Case of Long-Term English Language Learners in Secondary Schools. Click here to see the draft manuscript.
Menken, K. & García, O. (edited book under review). Negotiating Language Policies in Classrooms: Teachers as Change Agents. Under review for publication by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Menken, K. (in press). Policy Failures: No Child Left Behind and English language learners. In Groenke, S. & Hatch, A. (Eds.), Small Openings: Critical Pedagogy in Teacher Education in Neoliberal Times. Berlin, Germany: Springer. Expected 2009 publication.
Menken, K. (Ed.) (2008, September). No Child Left Behind and U.S. Language Education Policy. Guest Editor for a Thematic Issue of Language Policy 7(3), September 2008.
Menken, K. (2008). English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy. Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters.
Menken, K. (2008). Language policy and social control. In J. González (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Menken, K. (2008). No Child Left Behind testing requirements. In J. González (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Menken, K. (2008). High-Stakes Testing Effects. In J. González (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Menken, K. (2008, April). Review of Language Policy: Hidden Agendas and New Approaches by Elana Shohamy. Current Issues in Language Planning 9(2): pp. 231-234.
Menken, K. (2007). High-Stakes Testing as De Facto Language Policy in Education. In E. Shohamy and N. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 7: Language Testing and Assessment. Netherlands: Kluwer.
Menken, K. (2006, Summer). Teaching to the Test:
How Standardized Testing promoted by No Child Left Behind impacts Language Policy, Curriculum, and Instruction for English Language Learners.
Bilingual Research Journal, 30(2): pp. 521-546.
Menken, K. (2006). Historical Overview of Policies for English Language
Learners. In Freeman, R. & Hamayan, E. (Eds.), Educating English
Language Learners: A Guide for Administrators. Philadelphia, PA:
Caslon Publishing.
García, O. & Menken, K. (2006). The English of Latinos from
a plurilingual transcultural angle: Implications for assessment and schools.
In Nero, S. (Ed.) Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Menken, K. (2006). Invited review of Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-style”
Accountability Fails Latino Youth by Angela Valenzuela (Ed.). Language
Learner 1(3), January/February 2006: 22-23.
Menken, K. (2001). Do
the Models Fit? Towards Comprehensive School Reform for English Language
Learners. NCCSR/NCBE Issue Brief. Washington, DC: National
Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform and the National Clearinghouse
for Bilingual Education.
Menken, K. & Barron, V. (2001, revised 2002). What
are the characteristics of the bilingual education and ESL teacher shortage?
AskNCBE No. 14. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual
Education (NCBE).
Menken, K. (2001). When All Means All: Standards-Based Education Reform
and English-Language Learners. NABE News, Volume 24, Issue No.
5 (May/June 2001). Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education.
Antunez, B. & Menken, K. (2000). An
Overview of the Preparation and Certification of Teachers Working with
LEP Students. Washington, DC: NCBE.
Menken, K. (2000). What
Are the Critical Issues in Wide-Scale Assessment of English Language Learners?
NCBE Issue Brief No. 6. Washington, DC: NCBE.
Menken, K. & Look, K. (2000). Meeting the Needs of Linguistically
and Culturally Diverse Students. Schools in the Middle, February 2000.
Journal of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.