Author: Elizabeth Weise

The Science of Smart Click here to hear the radio piece by American Radio Works. Be aware that it’s an hour-long documentary! August 2014 Researchers have long been searching for better ways to learn. In recent decades, experts working in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience have opened new windows into how the brain works, and…

CREDIT: LILLIAN MONGEAU/EDSOURCE Second graders Jayden Lew and Giselle Ortega work on their Spanish grammar at Edison Elementary School in Glendale, where they are enrolled in a dual language immersion program.   Bilingual education could make a comeback July 29, 2014 | By Lillian Mongeau | 45 Comments After nearly two decades, bilingual education in California could stage a…

The book’s done but not yet published. (It also turned out to be 460 pages long, so you’re going to get your money’s worth!) My wonderful designer here in San Francisco, Craig Johnson, has created a beautiful manuscript for the print-on-demand version that will be available through Amazon CreateSpace. We need to do one more pass just…

Mandarin Immersion Parents Support is a Facebook group for current and incoming parents of Mandarin Immersion (MI) programs throughout the United States. The group provides a forum for parents to share information and find support relating to Mandarin Immersion programs, Chinese language study, and dual language education. By having a national group, we hope to draw on…

From China Daily:   A trip to China changed a state’s education Updated: 2014-06-27 11:37 By Qidong Zhang in San Francisco (China Daily USA) It all began with a trip to China in 2006. As a result, today 13,000 students in the state of Utah in grades K-12 speak Mandarin, the highest ratio in the…

Parents in Menlo Park, Calif. are starting to look at the charter process, after they were turned down by the school district when they asked for a program to be started. I was at the meeting, which was packed. The school board said they didn’t have the time or the energy to start such a project in…

The University of Utah’s Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) and the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) are excited to host the Fifth International Conference on Dual Language/Immersion Education, to be held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 15-18, 2014. The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, administrators and policy…