Wonderful!

Thank you Stephanie.

Nicole B. Graves
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephanie Shultz 
  To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:26 AM
  Subject: [EnglishLanguage 1356] Re: [BULK] Re: Immigration Bill


  And while we are protecting our borders, we should remodel the Statue of Liberty and the poem:

  Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
  With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
  Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
  A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
  Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
  >From her beacon-hand
  Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
  The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
  ""Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"" cries she
  With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
  I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

   

   

  Stephanie Shultz 

  ESL Facilitator

  Telamon Corporation

  917 Mt. hermon Rd.

  Salisbury, MD 21804

  410-546-4604 ext 118

  sshultz at telamon.org


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  From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Kearney Lykins
  Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:01 PM
  To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
  Subject: [BULK] [EnglishLanguage 1335] Re: Immigration Bill
  Importance: Low

   

  Nancy,

  Certainly the "needs of the people" are the very reason for government in the first place. The immigration debate however is about who gets to be "the people."  Societies that don't control their borders, and hence their language and culture and shared values ceases being a society at all. There are no examples of successful societies that have permitted themselves to be overrun with uninvited guests. 

  Kearney Lykins
  ESOL Teacher
  Virginia Beach, VA

   

   

   

  ----- Original Message ----
  From: Nancy R Faux/AC/VCU <nfaux at vcu.edu>
  To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List <englishlanguage at nifl.gov>
  Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:14:13 AM
  Subject: [EnglishLanguage 1331] Re: Immigration Bill


  Gloria, thank you so much for sharing this.  I was not aware in such detail of this portion of the proposed bill. 

  On this past Sunday, I listened on our local NPR station to a talk given by Jared Diamond, author of Collapse:  How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.  One of his main tenets was that societies in which the ruling class fails to understand the needs of the rest of the people (i.e.loses touch with reality) ultimately fails. 

  Nancy 

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  ESOL Specialist
  Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
  Virginia Commonwealth University
  Richmond, VA 
  nfaux at vcu.edu
  http://www.valrc.org
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        "Gloria Gillette" <gloria at neable.org> 
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        05/21/2007 04:34 PM 

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  Has anyone read the Immigration bill being debated in the Senate? 
  For all the talk from the politicians about immigrants learning English, this is what is included in the 324 page bill (available on CSPAN): 
    
  (Sec 709): 29 SEC. 709. English Learning Program. 
  30 (a) The Secretary of Education shall develop an open source electronic 
  31 program, useable on personal computers and through the Internet, 
  32 that teaches the English language at various levels of proficiency, up 
  33 to and including the ability to pass the Test of English as a Foreign 
  34 Language, to individuals inside the United States whose primary 
  35 language is a language other than English. The Secretary shall make 
  36 the program available to the public for free, including by placing it on 
  37 the Department of Education website, and shall ensure that it is readily 
  38 accessible to public libraries throughout the United States. The 
  39 program shall be fully accessible, at a minimum, to speakers of the top 
  40 five foreign languages spoken inside the United States. 
  41 (b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be 
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  May 18, 2007 11:58 p.m. 
  5/18/2007 325 
  appropriated to the Secretary of Education 1 such sums as are necessary 
    
  Section 704 discusses Citizenship and Integration Councils- also worth reading.  (Is this EL/Civics?). 
    
  Gloria Gillette 
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