Graduate school receives grant

Lewis & Clark’s graduate school has received a $656,621 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Bilingual Education to fund Project T.A.S.K. (Tools for Academic Skills and Knowledge).

The project will benefit students attending 15 schools in the Beaverton, Gresham-Barlow, Hillsboro, Portland and West Linn-Wilsonville school districts.

Project T.A.S.K. is a professional development program for K-12 educators to improve the academic and social experiences of non-native speaking students.

It brings together parents and educators in higher education and in K-12 schools to forge ways to meet the needs of non-native English-speaking students. Lewis & Clark’s graduate school will use the results to improve the way it prepares teachers to work with non-native speaking students.

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