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Oregon: When Jackson County schools enroll a student who doesn’t speak English their first priority is teaching the student the language. But educators say they are also concerned with improving the student’s academic skills, a process that can be stalled during the transition to English. To help students keep up with their academic skills, the [...]

Oregon: Oregon schools appear to have stumbled when it comes to getting students to become fully proficient in English as their second language. The Oregon Department of Education reported today that after five years learning English as a second language, only one in five students had learned to read, write and speak it fluently by [...]

Oregon and Iraq: Opp-Beckman, a senior instructor with the University of Oregon’s American English Institute, took the initiative to create an online distance education course for students and educators in Iraq after three global organizations asked for her help earlier this year. Opp-Beckman developed a one-year pilot program to help students and instructors in Iraq [...]

Oregon: Oregonians were rejecting a measure Tuesday that sought to cap the number of years that English-language learners in the state’s public schools could be taught in their native language. According to late returns Tuesday night, Measure 58, which would prohibit teaching non-native speakers in a language that is not English for more than one [...]

Oregon: Measure 58 on the upcoming November ballot outlines how many years students shall spend in English immersion classes before being taught exclusively in English. The measure seeks to ensure that instruction is in an English immersion-model, but Douglas County educators see the measure as a big question mark when it comes to how that [...]

A group comprising many of the principals of the education community, including parents, teachers, teachers unions and education industry advocates, has organized in opposition to Measure 58, which would limit the amount of foreign lanugage instruction English language learners could receive, and another schools initiative on the November ballot.
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Oregon: A nonprofit organization in Oregon paid 23 ordinary Oregonians $150 a day to be bombarded with facts about English-language learners—and to come up with a recommendation on whether their fellow Oregonians should vote “yes” or “no” on Measure 58, which, if passed, would put a limit on the amount of time English language learners [...]