[lg policy] bibitem: English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy

[Harold Schiffman]

English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy


English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy
Author: Menken, Kate
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Language: English
EAN: 978-1853599972
January 2008 - 207 Pages
Paperback


Description:

Explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have
become de facto language policy in US schools, detailing how testing
has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests
are a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners
and the educators who serve them.

http://books.cosis.net/bookstore/book/1372559/0/COST/BOK/EN9781853599972/Menken__K__ENGLISH_LEARNERS_LEFT_BEHIND.html


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