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Dual-Language Immersion Programs Raise Student Achievement in English

Portland Public Schools students randomly assigned to dual-language immersion programs outperformed their peers on state reading tests by 13 percent in grade 5 and by 22 percent in grade 8. Students gained proficiency in a second language with no drop in their performance in math or science.

Nov 3, 2017
Report

Report

Financing Health Care in Oregon: Four Policy Options

This presentation describes four options for financing health care for residents of the state of Oregon and compares the projected impacts and feasibility of each option.

May 17, 2017
News Release

News Release

Oregon Has Options to Move Toward Universal Health Coverage; Repeal of the Affordable Care Act Would Make All Options ...

Oregon has options for reforming health care financing to expand coverage and meet broader goals, though they differ in their feasibility, tradeoffs and financing requirements.

Jan 19, 2017
Research Brief

Oregon's Options to Overhaul Health Care Financing: Health Care Reform 2.0?

This analysis of three options to reform health care payment in Oregon (two state-based plans that would ensure coverage for all state residents and a state-sponsored plan offered in Oregon's nongroup market) found benefits and trade-offs for each.

Jan 19, 2017
Report

Oregon's Options for Financing Health Care

Federal health care reform had just begun in 2013 when Oregon authorized a study to improve how the state pays for health care. A comparison of the projected impacts and feasibility of four options can help Oregon's stakeholders choose the option that best suits their needs.

Jan 19, 2017
Research Brief

Research Brief

Implementing Two-Way Dual-Language Immersion Programs: Classroom Insights from an Urban District

Teachers in two-way dual-language immersion classrooms consistently implemented key instructional practices targeted by the school district. Teachers strongly adhered to guidelines on language use. Students were less consistent in their language use.

Oct 17, 2016
Journal Article

Journal Article

Teaching Practices and Language Use in Two-Way Dual Language Immersion Programs in a Large Public School District

This article provides a descriptive view of what is happening in two-way dual language immersion classrooms in a large, urban U.S. school district.

Jul 28, 2016
Commentary

Oregon Standoff Shouldn't Have an Anti-Terrorism Twist

Dwight and Steven Hammond were charged under a law enacted to fight terrorism, not rein in wayward ranchers. Anti-terrorist laws should not be used to strengthen prosecutors' hands in nonterrorist prosecutions—it makes national security needs look like an instrument of oppression.

Jan 13, 2016
Journal Article

Journal Article

Use of Pooled State Administrative Data for Mental Health Services Research

State mental health authorities routinely devote resources to collect data for state planning and reporting purposes. However, these data are rarely used in cross-state comparisons to inform state or federal policy development.

Feb 26, 2015
Report

Report

National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes

Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.

Jan 4, 2012
Journal Article

Journal Article

Reducing Early Smokers' Risk for Future Smoking and Other Problem Behavior: Insights from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study

Finds risk and protective factors during adolescence that predict future regular smoking and multiple problem behavior among youth who had tried smoking by grade 7. Protective factors include good grades and parental disapproval of smoking/drug use.

Dec 31, 2007
Report

Report

Oregon’s Measure 11 Sentencing Reform: Implementation and System Impact

The impacts of Measure 11 on crime and its prosecution in Oregon.

Dec 13, 2004
Journal Article

Journal Article

Oregon's Lessons for Improving Advance Care Planning

Discusses Oregon's Physicians orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.

Dec 31, 2003
Journal Article

Journal Article

Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

To identify predictors of the transition from experimentation to regular smoking in middle adolescence, late adolescence, and young adulthood.

Dec 31, 2002
Journal Article

Journal Article

Defining and Implementing Medical Necessity in Washington State and Oregon

This paper reports on a qualitative study of how health care providers in the states of Washington and Oregon define and implement medical necessity.

Dec 31, 1996
Journal Article

Journal Article

Medical Necessity and Defined Coverage Benefits in the Oregon Health Plan

The qualitative study described in this article addressed whether medical necessity remains a salient and useful concept in the Oregon Health Plan.

Dec 31, 1996
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Oregon Priority-Setting Exercise: Quality of Life and Public Policy

In 1989 the Oregon State legislature passed the Oregon Basic Health Services Act, which created a Health Services Commission charged with developing a priority list of health services. The goal of this legislation was to permit the expansion of Medicaid to 100 percent of all Oregonians living in poverty by covering only services deemed to be of sufficient importance or priority.

Dec 31, 1990
Journal Article

Journal Article

Setting Health Care Priorities in Oregon: Cost-Effectiveness Meets the Rule of Rescue

The Oregon Health Services Commission recently completed work on its principal charge: creation of a prioritized list of health care services, ranging from the most important to the least important.

Dec 31, 1990
Report

Report

Diverting Prisoners to Intensive Probation: Results of an Experiment in Oregon

This Note presents the results of an evaluation of an ISP implemented by Marion County, Oregon, which documents a number of important lessons regarding implementing a prison-diversion ISP.

Dec 31, 1989

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