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Author: Elizabeth Weise

  • Destination: Immersion (sturti/istockphoto) By Heather Clydesdale As recognition of language immersion’s wide-ranging benefits increase, and schools across the United States establish new programs, many are finding that the journey is rewarding, but also has hurdles. At the 2013 National Chinese Language Conference, Shuhan Wang, Ph.D, president of ELE Consulting International, assembled a team of administrators…

  • Getting there! What do you think of the cover?

    Just got this from the designer. Comments welcome. Beth

  • This is what happens to new programs–lots and lots of nuptials

    If you’re in a new Mandarin immersion program, just be aware that there are a lot of weddings and baby showers in your future. New programs mean new teachers. And new teachers do what lots of folks do when they finally settle into a good, solid job with a future–they start to look towards their own future.…

  • Hawai’ian immersion in Hawai’i

    The Longest ‘Ia  Story by Ronald Williams, Jr.Photos by Elyse Butler and Matt Mallams   It’s a tough day for practice. Even with the usual tradewinds that breeze across this campus high in Palolo Valley, it’s hot. The sparse patches of green on a field trampled by heavy feet seem to long for rain. Jerseys…

  • Menlo Park, Calif. school board says no Mandarin immersion for now

    Menlo Park school board says time isn’t right to add Mandarin immersion District wants to optimize current Spanish programs first By Barbara Wood Special to the Almanac  A standing-room-only crowd of parents and proponents of starting a Mandarin immersion program in the Menlo Park City School District next fall failed to get the support of…

  • China Syndrome: Why more kids are learning Mandarin

    BY CHRIS TAYLOR NEW YORK Thu Apr 24, 2014 11:38am EDT (Reuters) – If famed investor Jim Rogers is known for one trait above all, it is for spotting themes early — and betting on them big. So when the co-founder of The Quantum Fund (with George Soros) and author of “Adventure Capitalist” became a father, he…

  • Chapel Hill, North Carolina to keep Mandarin immersion program

    Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board backs Mandarin program, will reassign 76 students BY JONATHAN M. ALEXANDER jalexander@newsobserver.comJanuary 17, 2014  CHAPEL HILL — After almost four hours of discussion, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board reaffirmed its commitment to a Mandarin program at a local elementary school and voted to remedy overcrowding there by reassigning 76 students to different…