Gary Hargett, Ph.D.

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Gary Hargett has been involved with ESL and bilingual education for nearly all his professional life. He has taught adult ESL in Stockton, California, Seattle, Washington and Saigon, Vietnam. He directed an adult ESL and literacy project in Idaho and served as evaluation specialist for a refugee education program in Thailand. In graduate school he specialized in language proficiency assessment. He worked for three different migrant and bilingual education technical assistance centers, and has taught in bilingual teacher training programs at Western Oregon University, Portland State University, and Lewis and Clark College.

Dr. Hargett currently works as a private consultant in ESL and bilingual program planning and evaluation. He has conducted ELL program evaluations for 14 school districts in Oregon as well as districts in Washington, Idaho and Nevada. He has worked extensively with ESL and bilingual programs in Salem-Keizer School District for 18 years. He has expertise in NCLB implementation, and has advised the state of Washington on NCLB compliance in English proficiency testing pursuant to NCLB. He also served for two years on the team that developed Oregon's statewide English proficiency assessment in compliance with NCLB Title III.

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