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Nuestras historias no son ilegales: El Barrio Screening of Precious Knowledge

Segments of the film Precious Knowledge will be viewed and discussed as part of the CACHE Programs two day event in El Barrio/East Harlem.

Discussion Panelists include:

Prof. Jaime Estades, MSW, Esq, (Rutgers University, Founder & Director, Latino Leadership Institute),

Pedro Pedraza (NLERAP, Researcher, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College) and

Edwin Mayorga (NLERAP and New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE))

Moderated by Prof. Blanca Vaszquez (Hunter College).

Date:
Friday, May 4th, 6 p.m. — Free Admission & Refreshments.

Location:
*CACHE Program @ Casabe Houses Community Development
150 East 121st Street @ Lexington Avenue
El Barrio, NYC

RSVP by May 1:
cacheprogram@gmail.com / 212-410-6030 ext 306

*CACHE stands for Casabe’s Art, Culture, History & Education Program

We are especially interested in having Latino youth, parents and teachers attend, as well as all NYC education and community activists.

PDF Event Flier, created by Benita Rivera

Tweet chat on Bilingualism in Education April 10th at 3pm

On Tuesday, April 10 at 3pm, CUNY-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals will be hosting a tweet chat with NLERAP- NE. The tweet chat will explore dynamic bilingualism as conceptualized by Ofelia Garcia, co-principal investigator of NYSIEB. You can see a recent presentation by Ofelia Garcia by following the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVI41CMw6HM&feature=player_embedded

We will also discuss the way bilingualism has been discussed in the media by taking the recent New York Times op-ed “The Benefits of Bilingualism” as a point of departure.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html

You can find us on twitter @CUNY_NYSIEB and @LatinoEdu 

We hope that you will join us!

 

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