Author: Elizabeth Weise

Language immersion classrooms: Programs are popular, diligence translates to performance Published: Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 11:04 p.m. MST By Mercedes White, Deseret News Ms Alisa Wu’s third grade class in Sandy looks like any other classroom in the country. The desks are lined in neat rows. Brightly colored pictures of letters and vocabulary words decorate the walls.…

New Mandarin-Immersion School Attracts Families from Albany and Beyond At Yu Ming, 90 percent of the instruction is taught in Mandarin. A number of studies have shown that immersion is an effective model for language acquisition with benefits that extend beyond bilingualism, including improvements in subjects such as math an [Editor’s Note: Sarah Yang is an…

Magnet schools attract curiosity Credit: LAUREN CARROLL/JOURNAL James White, 10, explored the Lego engineering display set up by Brunson Elementary School at the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system’s magnet school fair Saturday. By: TRAVIS FAIN | Winston-Salem Journal Published: January 08, 2012 » 0 Comments | Post a Comment Hundreds of parents and students came to the Benton Convention Center on Saturday to…

Edward M. O’Mara, Village Grande Civic Association To the editor: Recently, Acting Commissioner Christopher Cerf denied the applications to two boutique Mandarin immersion schools . . . Hanyu International Academy (HIACS) and Hua Mei School. We are happy for the taxpayers in Livingston, Millburn, Maplewood, and West, South and East Orange. They have been spared…

Some Schools Buck Trend Of High Costs By SOPHIA HOLLANDER Enlarge Image Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street JournalWilliamsburg Northside kept tuition low—at $21,850—for its elementary school, which it opened in 2009. The private school also has an infant and toddler center and a preschool. In an age of private school educations that cost up to…

The Sensitive Subject of Educational Reform Posted: 1/16/12 04:18 PM ET  From the Huffington Post I am a SWISS Trilingual School parent. I am also the director of this small, unfortunately private, full-immersion school in Atlanta, Ga. Currently we are a K-3rd elementary school, and projected to the 12th grade. Most importantly, I am “G’s”…

Purchase this photo Paul Iwanaga Foreign language immersion program from Language Stars features William Li from Bejing in a play-based program at the Elmhurst Public Library, Jan. 12, 2012. Li gets “five” from an audience member. Staff photo by Paul Iwanaga | snapshots.mysuburbanlife.com/1394381 Posted Jan 20, 2012 @ 02:28 PM Elmhurst, IL — It offers…