Author: Elizabeth Weise

By KRISTIN PALPINI @kristinpalpini Thursday, September 5, 2013 (Published in print: Friday, September 6, 2013) SPRINGFIELD — Trustees of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School grilled its executive director Thursday night about what the chairwoman called a “troubling” lack of communication when he filed a prospectus with the state to start a similar school…

LETTER FROM CHINA A Moniker Only a Mister Could Like By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW Published: August 27, 2013 BEIJING — “Have you noticed how woman opinion leaders are being called ‘Mr.’ on Weibo?” asked my sharp-eyed friend Mei Zhang, referring to the influential Twitter-like microblogs. She was right. In scattered online references subsequently confirmed in interviews,…

  By DEBRA SCHERBAN @DebraScherban Thursday, August 29, 2013 (Published in print: Friday, September 6, 2013) HADLEY — The executive director and a trustee of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School aim to open a second school near Boston, even as the Hadley school expands into the secondary grades. Richard E. Alcorn, the school’s…

 The Chinese reading web site 5Q Channel has begun offering one free story per month for non-members, to give them a sense of the content the site has available. The first story is “The Peasant and the Devil”. You can access it at http://www.5qchannel.com/qqflash2011/ja032ta_free.htm The site will announce new stories on its Facebook page at…

By Lelan Miller 孟乐岚 Founder of Mandarin Matters in Our Schools in Texas (MMOST) and master’s candidate in Chinese Language Pedagogy This article is the last in a three part series about developing literacy in the Chinese language. While written primarily for non-Chinese parents with children in primary through high school who are in various…

EDUCATION | NEWS | OREGON School Officials Suspect ‘Bias’ In Oregon Teacher Exams OPB | Feb. 07, 2013 9:31 p.m. | Updated: Feb. 08, 2013 7:18 a.m. | Portland, Oregon Rob Manning Rob Manning / OPB Chinese Classroom at Woodstock Elementary School If you teach in an Oregon public school, you need an Oregon teaching license. For many teachers, passing the…

HADLEY — The executive director and a trustee of the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School aim to open a second school near Boston, even as the Hadley school expands into the secondary grades. Richard E. Alcorn, the school’s director, and trustee Rosalie Porter, a language educator, both of Amherst, submitted a prospectus to the…