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		<title>San Diego Mandarin immersion school welcomes Chinese visitors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keira Idumi, a kindergartner at Barnard Mandarin Chinese Magnet School in Point Loma, claps during the Barnard Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon celebration. The new year celebration began on Jamuary 23, and continues for 15 days. POINT LOMA HEIGHTS — It isn’t every day that an official from a major Chinese metropolis pulls up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3246&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Park, MD Mandarin immersion going strong</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prince George’s adds Chinese immersion at elementary school View Photo Gallery —  Paint Branch Elementary School in Prince George’s County is the latest school in the Washington region to join the trend of a Chinese immersion program to its curriculum. &#160; &#160; By Ovetta Wiggins, Thursday, February 9, 6:48 AM The Prince George’s County teacher lifted a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3243&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New location for Mandarin immersion school in Houston</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School Gordon Elementary School 6300 Avenue B Bellaire, TX 77401 Houston Independent School District is currently accepting applications for Pre-K to second grade for the 2012-2013 school year.  Please visit www.houstonisd.org/magnet for more details and to apply the Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School. Texas Holden Elementary School, Houston HISD’s first ever Mandarin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3240&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of going to the Chinese Language Conference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m giving a workshop at the conference on why parents chose Mandarin immersion for their children. If you&#8217;re planning on coming to the conference, drop a line and we can have a parent meet-up while we&#8217;re there. Beth<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3236&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Chinese Language Conference April 12-14, 2012 DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; State of the Field: Proficiency, Sustainability, and Beyond April 12–14, 2012 &#124; Washington Marriott Wardman Park Extended Early-bird Registration! We&#8217;ve extended the early-bird deadline, so you have until February 15 to get the most savings on your NCLC registration. Program Lineup Now Available This year&#8217;s exciting conference program lineup is now online. Take a look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3234&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012: The Year Mandarin Chinese Becomes a &#8216;Commonly Taught Language&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 22nd, 2011 by Chris Livaccari A student at Aiton Elementary School in Washington, D.C., practices Chinese. (Grace Norman) This is part of a series of year-end posts on Asia Blog written by Asia Society experts and Associate Fellows looking back on noteworthy events in 2011. You can read the entire series here. In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3232&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence Summers says there&#8217;s no point to learning languages &#8211; others disagree</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What You (Really) Need to Know By LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS Published: January 20, 2012 A PARADOX of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be an educated man or woman. College campuses are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3230&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking a foreign language is an impediment to being president, a recent podcast on NPR found. Please click here to read and hear the discussion. &#160; John McWhorter, a contributing editor for The New Republic, wrote recently about past presidents, the current presidential candidates and the languages they speak. He explains why being bilingual may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3227&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some education policy stuff  of interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elizabethweise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from the Asia Society&#8217;s newsletter, on the topic of Education › Policy Initiatives › State Initiatives. While all this education jargon can get pretty difficult to understand at time, the general theme seems to be how standards are being set for what all students nationwide should be learning, and how those are going to be taught in Mandarin. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3224&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NJ Mandarin charter not giving up &#8211; Gov. says charters (and Mandarin?) only for urban needy districts.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Montclair Charter Founders Move On; Maplewood Charter Founders Give Up Quest founder says she needs feedback from the community By Shelley Emling Email the author 9:03 am      PHOTOS (1) VIDEOS (1)  Upload Photos and Videos Although the media has reported that the founders of the Hua Mei Charter School in Maplewood have decided not to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=miparentscouncil.org&amp;blog=6336115&amp;post=3221&amp;subd=miparentscouncil&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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