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• n  the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

• will begin my answer to the question of why cultural competence has risen to the level that it has in the Oregon legislature and Department of Education with a statement that was .
• Why competence alone stands out as a predictive factor is not known.
• These questions frame the guiding principles of cultural competence efforts.

• competency

• incompetence

News & Articles

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• Competence questioned in sexual assault case
  VICTORVILLE • The case against an Apple Valley man accused of sexual assault has been suspended as officials seek to determine his mental competency, according to court records. Doubt into Elijah Miller’s mental competence was declared by the...
  June 13, 2013 - Desert Dispatch
• Suspect's mental competence questioned in sexual assault case
  VICTORVILLE The case against an Apple Valley man accused of sexual assault has been suspended as officials seek to determine his mental competency, according to court records. Doubt into Elijah Miller's mental competence was declared by the court in Victorville on Tuesday while Miller...
  June 13, 2013 - Victorville Daily Press
• The Competence Myth
  Bill Leff visits with L. Eric Culverson, author of The Competence Myth: Why your technical skills are no longer enough and what you can do about it! …
  June 12, 2013 - WGN Radio Chicago

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in GovExec.com
  The Taiwan fiasco, which was only discovered in March, was merely a "symptom of a degradation of the authority, standards of excellence and technical competence" of the country's intercontinental ballistic missile inventory, Gates said during a...
• Gordon Brown in Sydney Morning Herald
  Mr Brown told the BBC that "over the summer months we have had to deal with crises - with foot-and-mouth, terrorism, floods, financial crises. And yes, we could have had an election based on competence. But what I want to do is show people the...