Events

RISLUS Research Forum

RISLUS Research Forum 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Room. 9204 & 9205, the CUNY Graduate Center
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.)
Download the program or see more information here.

The past RISLUS Research Forums
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |

RISLUS Reports

RISLUS Reports, Monday, April 7, at 6:30 p.m., Room C201
Stephen May, University of Waikato and RISLUS Visiting Scholar
Literacy and Bilingualism: turning the tide
Download the abstract here.

Abstract
This presentation will focus on two key areas of educational research that have become increasingly invisibilized as a result of a current climate in the U.S. and elsewhere, where monolingual, compartmentalized and reductionist perceptions of literacy dominate educational policy and practice. The presentation briefly charts the history of literacy across the curriculum (LAC) and research on bilingual teaching and learning, and explores what these histories still have to tell us in the current climate. The presentation then examines two major projects – one focused on establishing LAC in high schools, the other a major Web-based resource for teachers working with bilingual students – that have the potential to provide a different educational perspective and agenda to the dyspeptic tenor of the times.

The past RISLUS Research Reports
Stephen May (PDF) | Ana Ortigosa (PDF) | Gabriela Pérez Báez (PDF) | Kate Menken (PDF) | Christian Muench (PDF)

Other 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.

News

- RISLUS Fellow Kate Menken has been awarded a $182,000 grant from the New York City Department of Education. The project Title is: "Meeting the Needs of Long-Term English Language Learners in High School, Phase II."  Kate Menken is the principal investigator and Professor Tatyana Kleyn, from the City College of New York, is a member of the research team. Research Assistants are: Nelson Flores (Urban Education), Alexander Funk (Linguistics), and Nabin Chae (Urban Education) of the CUNY Graduate Center.