OREGON EDUCATION

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Even after spending weeks watching the DVDs, kids were no more likely to know words highlighted in the videos. Doctors recommend no screen media time for kids under 2. Full story »

Their reading skills triumphant, Washington County students are headed to the state competition in April Full story »

The small Clackamas County high school, where more than 40 percent of students come from low-income homes, sees performance on state reading, writing and math tests surge from dismal to outstanding. Full story »

The annual home school convention has 30 workshops geared to children and teens. Full story »

Superintendent Carole Smith gives her budget message to the Portland School Board today, proposing the district use about 40 percent of its reserves to keep services intact.  Full story »

Zuleyma Fernanda Figueroa, 36, pleaded guilty to delivering meth in a large quantity out of the Southeast Portland home she shared with a friend. That friend, Concepcion Mendez-Hernandez, 40, also pleaded guilty to the same crime. Full story »

Brynn Tran, a 16-year-old junior at Lake Oswego's Lakeridge High School, won the state Poetry Out Loud competition Saturday in Salem and will represent Oregon at the national finals next month in Washington, D.C.  Full story »

Portland police said the death of Jessica E. Ettenger, who is from the Los Angeles area, was not suspicious and have referred the investigation to the county medical examiner.  Full story »

Four Westside Christian High School seniors have been named National Merit Scholarship finalists. They are among he top 15,000 highest-scoring participants out of 1.5 million program entrants across the country.  Full story »

Which professions are worth exploring right now? How do you instill good money habits in your children? What financial future do you envision for yourself? Those are some of the big life questions tackled in three new personal finance titles. Which book you pick up will likely depend on where you are in life. Here's a look at the new titles:  Full story »

Drowning in deposits, some Northwest co-ops try to survive by asking members to take their money elsewhere. Full story »

Brisk sales at the Portland RV show and a better-than-expected U.S. retail report for February fuels optimism about the economic recovery.  Full story »

The Wasco County Sheriff's Office has concluded the death of Kathryn Robertson, daughter of the Oregon Health & Science University president, was an accident. She was struck by a train near The Dalles on the afternoon of Feb. 7.  Full story »

State officials say a co-founder of the Chiquitos School, a small private Spanish immersion school, was working despite his license being suspended in 2004 over a DHS case.  Full story »