Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking of educational reform, Richard H. Hersh, associate dean for teacher education at the University of Oregon, tells a meeting: "We've been rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...
Horror stories about teaching abound. In Oregon a kindergarten teacher who had been given As and Bs at Portland State University was recently found to be functionally illiterate. How could this be? Says Acting Dean of the School of Education Harold Jorgensen: "It was a whole series of people not looking closely...
...heavy oil beneath the San Joaquin Valley. As a result, some companies are rapidly expanding into neighboring states, where land and labor are cheaper and energy supplies more predictable. Says Gordon Moore, chairman of the microchip front runner Intel: "Next year we'll have more employees in Oregon than in California...
...School's only Black professor, Derrick A. Bell, earlier this year accepted an offer to become dean of the University of Oregon Law School...
...debris can also be used commercially as cement additives, as ingredients in pharmaceuticals and in the production of soaps and cleaners. Some engineers are talking of tapping the heat of volcanoes directly (by circulating water through them); one such energy source under study by the U.S. Geological Survey is Oregon's Mount Hood...