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  • San Diego Mandarin immersion school welcomes Chinese visitors

    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…

  • College Park, MD Mandarin immersion going strong

    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.     By Ovetta Wiggins, Thursday, February 9, 6:48 AM The Prince George’s County teacher lifted a…

  • New location for Mandarin immersion school in Houston

    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…

  • Thinking of going to the Chinese Language Conference?

    I’m giving a workshop at the conference on why parents chose Mandarin immersion for their children. If you’re planning on coming to the conference, drop a line and we can have a parent meet-up while we’re there. Beth

  • National Chinese Language Conference April 12-14, 2012 DC

          State of the Field: Proficiency, Sustainability, and Beyond April 12–14, 2012 | Washington Marriott Wardman Park Extended Early-bird Registration! We’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’s exciting conference program lineup is now online. Take a look…

  • 2012: The Year Mandarin Chinese Becomes a ‘Commonly Taught Language’?

    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…

  • Lawrence Summers says there’s no point to learning languages – others disagree

    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…