Oregon Considered
Sealing the Cracks in the System
May 26, 2005
All this week, OPB's Language of Learning series has been looking at Oregon's changing classrooms. Between 1994 and 2004, the number of students in Oregon schools who spoke languages other than English rose by almost 400% percent.
Earlier this week, we visited younger students. Yesterday, we heard about efforts to get teenagers from foreign countries up to speed in English.
Today, Rob Manning brings us the last story in the series with a look at what's being done to seal the cracks in an education system under stress.
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