Thread: Oregon schools adopting Mexican curriculum

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Some Oregon schools adopting Mexican curriculum

09:02 AM PDT on Thursday, September 20, 2007

Associated Press

Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico's public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. history.

The Oregon Department of Education and Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education are discussing aligning their curricula so courses will be valid in both countries.

Similar ventures are under way in Yakima, Wash., San Diego, Calif., and Austin, Texas.

"Students come to us with such complex issues," said Tim King, director of Clackamas Middle College and Clackamas Web Academy, where a virtual course using Mexico's learning materials got started this week.

"We've had to change in order to fit into each school scene, become more complex and open ourselves up to new situations."

Oregon officials say the approach is intended as a supplement to keep students learning in Spanish while also gaining English skills.

Until now, Oregon school districts generally have relied on bilingual aides or used Spanish material different from the English material others are studying.

"That's not enough," said Patrick Burk, chief policy officer with the superintendent's office of the Oregon Department of Education. He said the idea is minimal disruption for immigrant Latinos.

"The availability of resources is astounding," said Burk, who flew to Mexico with Oregon curriculum officials in August to discuss making equivalency standards official. "We're able to serve the students so much better if we're working together."

Mexico has made its national curriculum available to communities across the U.S. since 2001 to encourage Mexican adults and youths to continue an education often abandoned back home due to limited resources.

"We wanted people to be aware that they have to study," said Patricia Ramos, the director of national affairs for Mexico's Institute for Adult Education and National Advisory of Education for Life and Work.

"You have to dare to study and make use of technology because that way, it will be easier to adapt to where you now live."

In other places, the curriculum was used to educate students' parents, rescue dropouts and even teach inmates. A program exists now at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn.

The program caught the attention of public schools such as Reynolds High School in Troutdale and Marshall Night School, an alternative school based at Marshall High School in Portland.

At Marshall, the material has been used in night school and may soon move into daytime classrooms.

At Reynolds, educators began using part of Mexico's curriculum to teach a Spanish literacy class.

Students learned punctuation and sentence structure in Spanish and then saw improvement in English progress, said Dale Bernardini, a teacher who handles the partnership for Reynolds School District.

This fall, textbooks, DVDs and Mexico's curriculum Web were introduced in Francisco Rico's math classroom at Reynolds.

"We're just ahead with all the materials," he said. "We have the Web site where students can do exercises ... they can learn through visual and audio. We were having trouble bringing something that would be familiar to their culture."

In Washington state, nearly 30 schools have already implemented Mexico's curriculum into the classrooms.

In Oregon, learning materials are free, but districts must pay for staff. So far, two computer servers supporting Mexico's Web site cost the state about $10,000 to install and about $2,200 annually to maintain.

One of the biggest challenges will be finding more Spanish-speaking instructors, said Burk of the Oregon Department of Education.

He said about 15 percent of Oregon students are Latino, compared with 2 percent of teachers.

One of the provisions of the NAU IS CO-MINGLING OF EDUCATION BETWEEN THE 3 COUNTRIES. This sounds dangerouosly like the start!

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"That's not enough," said Patrick Burk, chief policy officer with the superintendent's office of the Oregon Department of Education. He said the idea is minimal disruption for immigrant Latinos.

Well, I'm glad he has his priorities straight here [sarcasm, then barf!]
This is all occurring VERY near to me and, in fact, I have close family in education here in the area and we have had heated debates about the rationale in whether to accommodate "Latino immigrant" (primary Spanish speakers) children or not. I say not. Keep it simple keep it uniform - teach it in English (only).

Originally Posted by CitizenJustice

One of the provisions of the NAU IS CO-MINGLING OF EDUCATION BETWEEN THE 3 COUNTRIES. This sounds dangerouosly like the start!

You hit the nail on the head, CitizenJustice! The NAU and stealth amnesty is being implemented at break neck speed. We already have the free movement of people and goods from Mexico and Central America to the US, and now the nation building will begin. I wonder if the NAU calls for a dual presidency...one for Mexicans and one for Americans? ]

Originally Posted by AmericanMe

Originally Posted by CitizenJustice

One of the provisions of the NAU IS CO-MINGLING OF EDUCATION BETWEEN THE 3 COUNTRIES. This sounds dangerouosly like the start!

You hit the nail on the head, CitizenJustice! The NAU and stealth amnesty is being implemented at break neck speed. We already have the free movement of people and goods from Mexico and Central America to the US, and now the nation building will begin. I wonder if the NAU calls for a dual presidency...one for Mexicans and one for Americans? ]

It does look like our govenment is doing everything at high speed now to put us Americans on the same level playing field with the illegals. By the time they tax the middle class to extinction to pay for all the freebies for the growing numbers of illegals, we will already be a third world country.

When did the illegals become the chosen people of this country? Disgusting, and our tax dollars are going to this!

This is sheer and utter madness!

Originally Posted by CitizenJustice

One of the provisions of the NAU IS CO-MINGLING OF EDUCATION BETWEEN THE 3 COUNTRIES. This sounds dangerouosly like the start!

I believe you're right, CJ, and another sign is the new N.C. driver's license.

Molly wrote:

It does look like our govenment is doing everything at high speed now to put us Americans on the same level playing field with the illegals. By the time they tax the middle class to extinction to pay for all the freebies for the growing numbers of illegals, we will already be a third world country.

Another way to break us is to keep dropping the interest rate. Inflation will go up while wages stagger and just to make ends meet will get alot harder. Afterwards, they'll claim that we need the NAU to get economically stronger and everyone (the sheeple) will go for it because of how hard they will be hurting. It's one way to fool us and I believe all of the outsourcing and the allowance of the illegal entries are the tools they have used to set the stage for the NAU. The best thing we can do is get rid of the 'Federal' Reserve, like JFK tried to do.

http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm

On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.

SORRY FOR GETTING OFF TOPIC!

Originally Posted by Molly

Originally Posted by AmericanMe

Originally Posted by CitizenJustice

One of the provisions of the NAU IS CO-MINGLING OF EDUCATION BETWEEN THE 3 COUNTRIES. This sounds dangerouosly like the start!

You hit the nail on the head, CitizenJustice! The NAU and stealth amnesty is being implemented at break neck speed. We already have the free movement of people and goods from Mexico and Central America to the US, and now the nation building will begin. I wonder if the NAU calls for a dual presidency...one for Mexicans and one for Americans? ]

It does look like our govenment is doing everything at high speed now to put us Americans on the same level playing field with the illegals. By the time they tax the middle class to extinction to pay for all the freebies for the growing numbers of illegals, we will already be a third world country.

Well, aint that ever the truth!!!! I heard the "shared carriculum" on the
radio this afternoon and almost fell out of my truck!!!! Maybe we need
to gather with torches, rakes and pitchforks and storm the castle.
It just might work.

I bet the "US History" is really "Assland" propaganda.