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Receives research funding

Published: Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007

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PROVO, Utah — BYU's ESL Endorsement through Distance Education program, housed in the David O. McKay School of Education, recently was awarded five years of research funding totaling almost $1.5 million from the Office of English Language Acquisition of the U.S. Department of Education.

The funding will provide English as a Second Language Endorsements for 225 classroom teachers and systematic ongoing support through coaching, mentoring and teacher work groups for 225 more teachers who have previously completed the ESL endorsement.