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Title: Jane Elliott: "The Anatomy of Prejudice"
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" "The Anatomy of Prejudice" with Jane Elliott When: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:30 p.m. Where: Templeton Student Center Lewis and Clark College Portland OR Cost: Free and open to the general public. Sponsored by the Black Student Union. Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. Over 30 years ago, in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise. This now famous exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Everyone who is exposed to Jane Elliott's work, be it through a lecture, workshop, or video, is dramatically affected by it. Contact: Robbie Fung, Director, Student Activities Office http://www.lclark.edu/org/artslive rfung@lclark.edu 503-768-7122
Source: Lewis and Clark College Portland OR
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Title: Achievement Gap Conference
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" For more information, visit http://www.ode.state.or.us/gap/ Call for Presentations Applications due by January 16, 2004 Conference date: February 28, 2004 - Portland State University Are you an educator in Oregon that has developed programs/techniques that have increased the achievement of all students? Do you have data to show how you have "closed the gap"? If so, then you would be the perfect presenter for the Closing the Achievement Gap Conference. This conference will showcase success stories of teachers, schools, or districts that have successfully closed the achievement gap within Oregon. We want to promote these successes and share them with others in the hopes that attendees will walk away from this event with solid concrete tools that they can implement in their school system immediately. The five strands are as follows: 1. Instruction 2. Parent and Community Involvement 3. Curriculum 4. Leadership and Accountability 5. Training and Staff Development Closing the Achievement Gap Conference February 28, 2004 - Portland State University Welcome to the Closing the Achievement Gap Conference home page. Thank you for your interest in ensuring success for all of Oregon's students. Current research combined with effective teaching strategies and data gained through student assessment is allowing us to recognize both successful strategies and areas of improvement in our students' education. Now is the time to realize these opportunities and put them into action where they are needed most-in Oregon's classrooms. This conference will highlight leaders whose classrooms, schools and districts are meeting the challenge of closing the achievement gap. These people are putting great ideas into action that are yielding real results for Oregon's students. I personally invite all people interested in ensuring the success of all students to come together to share and learn from each other. Working together we will continue our high level of service to all of Oregon's students. Thank you! Susan Castillo State Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Title: OELA Newsline - January 13, 2004
Body: From: "OELA Newsline" Read this online at: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/index.htm Important Notice: Beginning with this issue, the email version of Newsline will only feature the issue's table of contents so as to take up less mailbox space. Therefore, to view articles, readers will be guided to visit the NCELA Web site . OELA NEWSLINE January 13, 2004 Items in this Issue: I. No Child Left Behind Update - Johns Hopkins Study of Bilingual Education Invites Schools to Participate - Spanish Translation of "No Child Left Behind: A Parents Guide" - OELA 2003 Summit Presentation Materials on NCELA Web Site - Recent U.S. Department of Education Announcements II. News in the Nation - Bilingual Students More Unified - Funding Opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education - Kiwanis Club Helps ESL Students - Sharing Lessons on Somali Culture - Study Finds Immigrant Students Successful - Understanding Educational Achievements of "Model Minorities": An Interview with Assistant Professor Vivian Shuh Ming Louie III. Research, Publications, and Resources - 2003-2004 Technical Assistance Network Directory - 2003-2004 Teleconference Series: "Achieving Success in Reading" - All Learners Benefit from Reading Interventions - "Breaking the Silence?" - Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches to Language and Intercultural Communication - Full-Text Books Now Online - Language Skills and Earnings: Evidence from Childhood Immigrants - Literacy Coaches for Secondary Schools - NCLR Releases Brief on the Status of Children in Puerto Rico - New NCES Report on Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions - "Our Students are Ready for This: Comprehension Instruction in the Elementary School"
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Title: Scholarships: Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
Body: From: "Anselmo Villanueva" Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce 2004 Scholarship Information Scholarship Awards will range from $1,000 - $5,000 Purpose: To provide support and encouragement for Hispanics beginning or continuing their higher education. General Requirements - Applicant must be of Hispanic ancestry, residing in Oregon or Clark County, Washington. - Applicant must have at least a 2.75 GPA as evidenced by a certified high school or college transcript. - Applicant must be enrolled by September 2004 in an accredited community college, 4 year college or university or accredited graduate degree program. - Other requirements are listed at the end of the application under the signature line. How to Apply - Applicant must submit a completed application with all the required attachments (official transcripts, references and the essays). - Incomplete applications will not be considered. - Mail to: HMC Scholarship Committee P.O.Box 1837 Portland, Oregon 97207 Phone: 503-222-0280 - You can download a PDF file of this application from our web site at: www.hmccoregon.com
Source: HMC Scholarship Committee
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Title: VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste"
Body: From: "Lilian Guerrero" www.8encuentrolinguistica.uson.mx Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2004 The "VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste" will take place at the Universidad de Sonora, in Hermosillo, Sonora, México, November 17, 18 and 19, 2004. Papers in all the areas of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse studies, language acquisition, etc.) will be considered. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected based on the evaluation of an anonymous written abstract, which may not exceed 500 words. Electronic submissions are encouraged. The deadline for abstracts to be received is April 30, 2004. Invited speakers Judith Aissen - University of California Nick Evans- Melbourne University Thomas Smith Stark- El Colegio de México Liliana Tolchinsky- Universidad de Barcelona Michelle Tomasello- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology-Leipzig Submissions Abstracts may be submitted electronically either in the body of an e-mail message (if they include no special characters) or as an e-mail attachment in Word, PDF, or RTF format to: encuentro@guaymas.uson.mx If the abstract include any special fonts, please specify them or send a hard copy of your abstract to the Fax number: 00-52-(662)-212-55-29 or by snail mail to: VIII ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE LINGÜÍSTICA EN EL NOROESTE Dept. de Letras y Lingüística, Juan Ma. de Salvatierra # 33, Fracc. Los Arcos, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83250, México. On a separate page from the abstract please provide the following information: (1) name, (2) address, (3) affiliation, (4) telephone and FAX number, (5) e-mail address, and (6) status (faculty/grad student/undergrad.student) Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by June 30, 2004. REGISTRATION: $85 dlls. Non-students $50 dlls. PhD students $10 dlls. All other students CONTACTS: Andrés Acosta Félix aacosta@capomo.uson.mx Isabel Barreras jbarrera@capomo.uson.mx Zarina Estrada Fernández zarina@guaymas.uson.mx Gerardo López Cruz glopez@correom.uson.mx Ana Lidia Munguía Duarte amunguia@rtn.uson.mx Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani ortizrm@capomo.uson.mx
Source: Universidad de Sonora
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Title: * 4th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages (Lisbon, May 24)
Body: From Steven Bird (sb@cs.mu.oz.au) 20 Dec 2003: The 4th International Workshop of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages (ISCA SIG - SALTMIL), will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 24, 2004, as part of the 2004 International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). For information on LREC see: http://www.lrec-conf.org/; for SALTMIL see: http://193.2.100.60/SALTMIL/ Titled "First Steps for Language Documentation of Minority Languages: Computational Linguistic Tools for Morphology, Lexicon and Corpus Compilation," the workshop is intended to continue the series of SALTMIL/LREC workshops on computational language resources for minority languages, held in Granada (1998), Athens (2000), and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2002). The Lisbon 2004 workshop aims to share information on tools and best practice, so that isolated researchers will not need to start from scratch. An important aspect will be the forming of personal contacts, which can minimize duplication of effort. Information on sources of funding for minority languages will also be presented, and there will be discussion on the strategic priorities that need to be addressed in this area. There will be a balance between presentations of existing language resources, and more general presentations designed to give background information needed by all researchers present. The workshop will feature presentations of existing speech and text databases for minority languages, with particular emphasis on software tools that have been found useful in their development. Topics will include: Linguistic corpora, Automatic Speech Recognition, Acoustic modelling, Dictionary development, Language modelling, Natural Language Processing, Computational lexicography, Machine Translation, and Information retrieval. Papers are invited that describe research and development in the area of Human Language Technology portability. All contributed papers will be presented in poster format. Each submission should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 500 words, plain-text format) should be sent via e-mail to Julie Berndsen (University College Dublin) at: . The deadline for abstract submission is 11th February 2004. The registration fees for the workshop are 85 Euro if you are not attending LREC, or 50 Euro if you are attending LREC. These fees will include a coffee break and the Proceedings of the Workshop. Registra- tion will be handled by the LREC Secretariat.
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Title: UC-Berkeley Survey catalogue back online
Body: From: Leanne Hinton (hinton@socrates.Berkeley.EDU) 18 Dec 2003: I am pleased to announce that the catalog of the Survey of California and Other Languages, which was off-line for months due to a computer hack-in, is now on-line again. The catalog can be accessed at: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/Survey/archives.html You can search by language, family, stock, collector or consultant. If you have any questions or would like to make an appointment to visit the Survey, please contact me or the Survey assistant, Rainbow Willard (rainboww@socrates.berkeley.edu). Leanne Hinton University of California, Berkeley hinton@socrates.berkeley.edu
Source: University of California, Berkeley
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Title: Lexicography discussion group
Body: From (wayne_leman@sil.org) 23 Dec 2003: You are invited to join a Lexicography e-mail discussion group that I am organizing. Anyone active in lexicography fieldwork (including dictionary making) or teaching (or with a serious interest in lexico- graphy) is welcome to join and contribute to the discussions. The list will entertain discussion on any lexicographical topics of interest to the list members, including annoucements of research or publications, discussion of lexicography computer software, discovery procedures, lexical relations, universal semantic domains, aboriginal group intellectual property rights, dictionary-making, etc. It will be open to anyone studying the lexicon of any language, but I suspect some of the most active members will be from SSILA. The list website is at URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lexicographylist/ from which anyone may join. Or one may join by sending a message to: lexicographylist-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Wayne Leman Cheyenne linguist (wayne_leman@sil.org)
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Title: Creek Language Archive
Body: From Jack Martin (jbmart@wm.edu) 22 Dec 2003: Readers of the Bulletin may be interested in visiting the Creek Language Archive. This site is designed to make many of the published sources on Creek available to a wider audience as pdf files and html pages. It also provides basic information on Creek, including a short talking dictionary and sections from a textbook in progress. The URL is: http://www.wm.edu/linguistics/creek Jack Martin College of Wiliam & Mary (jbmart@wm.edu)
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Title: Literacy, Endangerment, and the Ethnologue: An ELL Thread
Body: From: SSILA Earlier this month, an interesting discussion thread developed on the Endangered Languages List that may be of interest to the wider SSILA readership. Starting with a query about the percentage of the world's languages that have writing systems, the discussion evolved into a a consideration of what "writing" means in small, traditional speech communities, and finally raised some issues concerning the accuracy of the Ethnologue. Contributors to the discussion included Alasdair MacLeod, Michal Brody, Nick Ostler, Mike Cahill, Julia Sallabank, Russ Bernard, and Eduardo Rivail Ribiero. The full discussion can be found in the ELL archives for December 2003 on the Linguist List website: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/endangered-languages-l.html
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