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Title: Job: Language Testing Project Assistant at CAL
Body: From http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/archives/2007/05/language_testin_1.html The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC seeks a Language Testing Project Assistant to assist with research and test development for a large-scale English language assessment for K-12 English language learners. Responsibilities: *review test items for content accuracy; *maintain and coordinate the test item database; *prepare and maintain a variety of files and records (e.g., research summer reports, bibliographies, etc.) in support of research efforts; *write and review test materials and documents (e.g., charts, forms, schedules, etc.); *assist test administrators with technical demands of training applications; *respond to inquiries of administrators, district personnel, and test administrators; and *other tasks as assigned Qualifications: *must have a BA/BS in linguistics, education, or a related discipline. Masters degree preferred; *must have experience working with English language learners in K-12; *experience in assessment, literacy, and/or content area instruction is desirable; and *must be able to prioritize work and give attention to detail while meeting deadlines and have strong written and oral communication skills. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to: Center for Applied Linguistics 4646 40th Street, NW Washington, DC 20016-1859 ATTN: Recruitment 07-07 E-mail: jobs@cal.org, Attn: 07-04
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Title: Job: Language Testing Project Assistant at CAL
Body: From http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/archives/2007/05/language_testin_1.html The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC seeks a Language Testing Project Assistant to assist with research and test development for a large-scale English language assessment for K-12 English language learners. Responsibilities: *review test items for content accuracy; *maintain and coordinate the test item database; *prepare and maintain a variety of files and records (e.g., research summer reports, bibliographies, etc.) in support of research efforts; *write and review test materials and documents (e.g., charts, forms, schedules, etc.); *assist test administrators with technical demands of training applications; *respond to inquiries of administrators, district personnel, and test administrators; and *other tasks as assigned Qualifications: *must have a BA/BS in linguistics, education, or a related discipline. Masters degree preferred; *must have experience working with English language learners in K-12; *experience in assessment, literacy, and/or content area instruction is desirable; and *must be able to prioritize work and give attention to detail while meeting deadlines and have strong written and oral communication skills. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to: Center for Applied Linguistics 4646 40th Street, NW Washington, DC 20016-1859 ATTN: Recruitment 07-07 E-mail: jobs@cal.org, Attn: 07-04
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Title: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Seeking Standardized Testing in Spanish
Body: From http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070522-1422-ca-schools-testinglawsuit.html Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking standardized testing in Spanish SAN FRANCISCO – A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by eight school districts that demanded that students be allowed to take standardized tests in Spanish, their native language. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court in June 2005, claimed that testing students only in English does not accurately measure the academic abilities of students still learning the language. Judge Richard Kramer ruled on Monday that it would be impractical to translate tests into all the different languages spoken in California. He said it was appropriate to test in English given the state's duty to make sure students speak the language and that voters approved English-only instruction in 1996. Read the entire article at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070522-1422-ca-schools-testinglawsuit.html .
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
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Title: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Seeking Standardized Testing in Spanish
Body: From http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070522-1422-ca-schools-testinglawsuit.html Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking standardized testing in Spanish SAN FRANCISCO – A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by eight school districts that demanded that students be allowed to take standardized tests in Spanish, their native language. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court in June 2005, claimed that testing students only in English does not accurately measure the academic abilities of students still learning the language. Judge Richard Kramer ruled on Monday that it would be impractical to translate tests into all the different languages spoken in California. He said it was appropriate to test in English given the state's duty to make sure students speak the language and that voters approved English-only instruction in 1996. Read the entire article at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070522-1422-ca-schools-testinglawsuit.html .
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
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Title: Article: Some US Schools Bill Foreign Exchange Students for Tuition
Body: From http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/03/school_may_bill_exchange_students/?page=1 School may bill exchange students Rare tuition policy to ease fiscal pinch By Melissa Beecher, Globe Correspondent | June 3, 2007 It's an idealistic program. An American student travels abroad, changing places with a student in another country. The experience is supposed to enlighten everyone involved. But Maynard school leaders say that educating those exchange students costs money, and it's time to consider charging them tuition. Superintendent Mark Masterson is drafting a policy that would require foreign students to pay about $12,000 per year. Read the entire article at http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/03/school_may_bill_exchange_students/?page=1 .
Source: Boston Globe
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Title: Article: Some US Schools Bill Foreign Exchange Students for Tuition
Body: From http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/03/school_may_bill_exchange_students/?page=1 School may bill exchange students Rare tuition policy to ease fiscal pinch By Melissa Beecher, Globe Correspondent | June 3, 2007 It's an idealistic program. An American student travels abroad, changing places with a student in another country. The experience is supposed to enlighten everyone involved. But Maynard school leaders say that educating those exchange students costs money, and it's time to consider charging them tuition. Superintendent Mark Masterson is drafting a policy that would require foreign students to pay about $12,000 per year. Read the entire article at http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/03/school_may_bill_exchange_students/?page=1 .
Source: Boston Globe
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Title: New Report: Putting English Language Learners on the Educational Map
Body: From http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/archives/2007/06/_limited_englis.htm New Report: Putting English Language Learners on the Educational Map: The No Child Left Behind Act Implemented By Clemencia Cosentino de Cohen and Beatriz Chu Clewell The Urban Institute May 2007 Part of its series of reports designed to expand knowledge about young immigrant populations and to document how the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) affects the education of English language learner (ELL) and limited English proficient (LEP) students, this Urban Institute policy brief addresses the question: has NCLB improved education for ELLs as schools have become accountable for these students' performance? The brief presents an overview of the ELL population's demographic profile, and suggests that while implementation of NCLB in high-LEP schools has resulted in some problems for ELL students' education, the net effect of the law has been positive. The brief discusses the implications of the findings and gives recommendations for strengthening the potentially positive effects of NCLB on the education of ELL students. The brief also looks ahead to the reauthorization of NCLB and the implications of expanding the law. Read more about the report at http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/archives/2007/06/_limited_englis.html . Read the entire report at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/311468_ell.pdf .
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Title: New Report: Putting English Language Learners on the Educational Map
Body: From http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/archives/2007/06/_limited_englis.htm New Report: Putting English Language Learners on the Educational Map: The No Child Left Behind Act Implemented By Clemencia Cosentino de Cohen and Beatriz Chu Clewell The Urban Institute May 2007 Part of its series of reports designed to expand knowledge about young immigrant populations and to document how the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) affects the education of English language learner (ELL) and limited English proficient (LEP) students, this Urban Institute policy brief addresses the question: has NCLB improved education for ELLs as schools have become accountable for these students' performance? The brief presents an overview of the ELL population's demographic profile, and suggests that while implementation of NCLB in high-LEP schools has resulted in some problems for ELL students' education, the net effect of the law has been positive. The brief discusses the implications of the findings and gives recommendations for strengthening the potentially positive effects of NCLB on the education of ELL students. The brief also looks ahead to the reauthorization of NCLB and the implications of expanding the law. Read more about the report at http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/archives/2007/06/_limited_englis.html . Read the entire report at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/311468_ell.pdf .
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Title: MLA Report Calls for Transformation of Foreign-Language Education
Body: From http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/05/2007052402n.htm MLA Report Calls for Transformation of Foreign-Language Education By BURTON BOLLAG Foreign-language teaching at American colleges and universities -- typically characterized by two or three years of grammar and vocabulary taught pretty much in a vacuum, followed by more advanced courses in literature -- has outlived its usefulness and needs to change, according to a report to be released today by the Modern Language Association. That well-established model, it says, should be replaced by language programs organized on an interdisciplinary basis and containing from the beginning more cultural content to make graduates better able to function in an increasingly global environment. What is needed, the report says, is "a broader and more coherent curriculum in which language, culture, and literature are taught as a continuous whole." Read the entire report at http://www.mla.org/flreport .
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: MLA Report Calls for Transformation of Foreign-Language Education
Body: From http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/05/2007052402n.htm MLA Report Calls for Transformation of Foreign-Language Education By BURTON BOLLAG Foreign-language teaching at American colleges and universities -- typically characterized by two or three years of grammar and vocabulary taught pretty much in a vacuum, followed by more advanced courses in literature -- has outlived its usefulness and needs to change, according to a report to be released today by the Modern Language Association. That well-established model, it says, should be replaced by language programs organized on an interdisciplinary basis and containing from the beginning more cultural content to make graduates better able to function in an increasingly global environment. What is needed, the report says, is "a broader and more coherent curriculum in which language, culture, and literature are taught as a continuous whole." Read the entire report at http://www.mla.org/flreport .
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: Internet Breathes Life into Dying Languages
Body: From http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=167024 Internet breathes life into dying languages HOLYHEAD, WALES, JUNE 13: Endangered languages like Welsh, Navajo and Breton have regained speakers and popularity in their communities and are now even ‘cool’ for kids--thanks to the Internet. Welsh language expert David Crystal said the Internet could forestall the dismal fate of about half of the world's 6,500 languages, which are doomed to extinction by the end of the 21st century at a rate of about two language deaths a month. "The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before," said Crystal, who has written over 50 books on language including ‘The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language’. Read the entire article at http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=167024 .
Source: The Financial Express
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Title: Internet Breathes Life into Dying Languages
Body: From http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=167024 Internet breathes life into dying languages HOLYHEAD, WALES, JUNE 13: Endangered languages like Welsh, Navajo and Breton have regained speakers and popularity in their communities and are now even ‘cool’ for kids--thanks to the Internet. Welsh language expert David Crystal said the Internet could forestall the dismal fate of about half of the world's 6,500 languages, which are doomed to extinction by the end of the 21st century at a rate of about two language deaths a month. "The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before," said Crystal, who has written over 50 books on language including ‘The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language’. Read the entire article at http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=167024 .
Source: The Financial Express
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Title: Indiana Schools Adopt East Asian Language Standards
Body: From http://www.doe.state.in.us/reed/newsr/2007/06-June/worldlanguages.html Action taken by the State Board of Education this week made Indiana the first state to adopt grade-level standards specific to Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages for all grades kindergarten through twelve. The Department’s World Language Standards Revision Task Force developed a separate, yet related, set of standards specifically geared towards East Asian languages to take into account the inherent uniqueness of these languages. The languages are some of the most complex of all modern spoken languages both in structure and pronunciation, and they require more time for students to acquire than other commonly taught languages. More information about the standards is available at http://www.doe.state.in.us/reed/newsr/2007/06-June/worldlanguages.html . The standards can be downloaded and viewed at http://www.doe.state.in.us/standards/standards2000_lang.html .
Source: Indiana Department of Education
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Title: Indiana Schools Adopt East Asian Language Standards
Body: From http://www.doe.state.in.us/reed/newsr/2007/06-June/worldlanguages.html Action taken by the State Board of Education this week made Indiana the first state to adopt grade-level standards specific to Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages for all grades kindergarten through twelve. The Department’s World Language Standards Revision Task Force developed a separate, yet related, set of standards specifically geared towards East Asian languages to take into account the inherent uniqueness of these languages. The languages are some of the most complex of all modern spoken languages both in structure and pronunciation, and they require more time for students to acquire than other commonly taught languages. More information about the standards is available at http://www.doe.state.in.us/reed/newsr/2007/06-June/worldlanguages.html . The standards can be downloaded and viewed at http://www.doe.state.in.us/standards/standards2000_lang.html .
Source: Indiana Department of Education
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Title: Conversation Openers and Fillers in Japanese
Body: This list of conversation openers and fillers is broken up into functional groups. It is available at http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa093001a.htm?nl=1 .
Source: About.com
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Title: Conversation Openers and Fillers in Japanese
Body: This list of conversation openers and fillers is broken up into functional groups. It is available at http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa093001a.htm?nl=1 .
Source: About.com
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Title: Useful German Links
Body: Internet Public Library Nachschlagebestand: German Ready Reference Collection This bilingual German-English website has links to other useful sites for German, including Geography, News and Current Events, Dictionaries, German Language, and Quotations. It is available at http://www.ipl.org/div/germanref .
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Title: Useful German Links
Body: Internet Public Library Nachschlagebestand: German Ready Reference Collection This bilingual German-English website has links to other useful sites for German, including Geography, News and Current Events, Dictionaries, German Language, and Quotations. It is available at http://www.ipl.org/div/germanref .
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Title: German Culture: 2007 Skulptur Projekte Münster
Body: From http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/2007/070615/%20misc5.html Record Crowds Are Expected at This Year’s skulptur projekte münster June 15, 2007 The fourth edition of the international exhibition skulptur projekte münster, which has been held every ten years since 1977, opens June 16. More than 500,000 visitors attended in 1997, and this year even more visitors are expected since it will be running parallel with the documenta 12 exhibition in Kassel, Germany. This year’s curators have chosen thirty-six artists to participate. These artists will come from all over the world to accept the challenge of creating and installing a work of art within the confines of the city of Münster. For 105 days the city is transformed into a living exhibition space, where visitors, identified by their skulptur projekte maps, are seen moving from one artwork to another, hypnotized by their art treasure hunt. Read the entire article at http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/2007/070615/%20misc5.html .
Source: The Week in Germany
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Title: German Culture: 2007 Skulptur Projekte Münster
Body: From http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/2007/070615/%20misc5.html Record Crowds Are Expected at This Year’s skulptur projekte münster June 15, 2007 The fourth edition of the international exhibition skulptur projekte münster, which has been held every ten years since 1977, opens June 16. More than 500,000 visitors attended in 1997, and this year even more visitors are expected since it will be running parallel with the documenta 12 exhibition in Kassel, Germany. This year’s curators have chosen thirty-six artists to participate. These artists will come from all over the world to accept the challenge of creating and installing a work of art within the confines of the city of Münster. For 105 days the city is transformed into a living exhibition space, where visitors, identified by their skulptur projekte maps, are seen moving from one artwork to another, hypnotized by their art treasure hunt. Read the entire article at http://www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/2007/070615/%20misc5.html .
Source: The Week in Germany
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