Bilingual education gives Alhambra Catholic school new life Mandarin teacher Mandy Chou shows students how to add. | Photos by Alfred Dicioco Share on Tumblr July 11, 2013Alfred Dicioco Reporter The kindergarten and first grade combination class at All Souls Elementary School may seem like a typical Alhambra classroom. At 8 a.m. the diverse group of kids —…

By Elizabeth Weise Why you need to turn your house into a Chinese home Imagine you go to visit the home of a new friend of your child’s. The mom gives you a quick tour of the house while the kids go off to play. It’s a lovely home, warm and inviting. You really like…

Chris Livaccari has been a huge proponent of Mandarin and Mandarin immersion at the Asia Society in New York and now he’ll be leading a school in a very immersion-rich area (the San Francisco Bay area.) I don’t know the school at all but will expect to see a lot of innovation coming out of…

4 new R.I. charter schools proposed for fall 2014 July 01, 2013 01:00 AM BY LINDA BORG Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE — Four new charter schools are in the pipeline, including two schools proposed by Providence school leaders, a Chinese immersion program, and a science and engineering-themed school in Newport. Each school has received preliminary…

Greenville Chinese immersion program surpasses expectations By Kelli Ameling • Last Updated 10:50 am on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Mrs. Li, who came to Greenville from China as part of the Chinese immersion program, posed with her first class that will be advancing in the program at Walnut Hills Elementary School. — Courtesy photo GREENVILLE —  The outcome of…

By Jamila Nightingale My family’s road to Chinese immersion began just days after my husband and I walked down the aisle. While we were honeymooning overseas we came across a short article on raising bilingual children. The article posed a question: Which language would you choose, Spanish or Chinese? This sparked a five-minute conversation during…

By Elizabeth Weise Germany’s first Mandarin immersion program is still struggling to get the German educational establishment to recognize Chinese as language in which academic studies can be taught. The school, which launched in the fall of 2011, has been forced to settle for offering a Chinese language class to its students three times a…