Author: Elizabeth Weise

Chinese New Year: Ring in the Year of the Dragon with dances, art, food and kung fu POSTED: 01/19/2012 04:39:05 PM MST UPDATED: 01/19/2012 04:39:10 PM MST By The Denver Post Kindergartners from the Denver Language School rehearsed a play they will peform at Hamilton Middle School celebrating the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon.…

Pot stickers help bridge gap between China and America January 19, 2012|By Huntly Collins, For The Inquirer Mia Qian Miller Collins in Qibao, an ancient Chinese town on the edge of Shanghai. Brought… Tears streamed down my face as the bus carrying our family and a dozen other Americans, all adopting parents, pulled out of…

Chinese, It’s the New Spanish By Elizabeth Salaam | Published Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 Photo by Alan Decker Robert Dorsey is not Chinese, but he drives 25 miles from El Cajon to Point Loma every morning so his two daughters can learn to speak, read, and write in Mandarin. “In my culture, it’s English, Ebonics, and maybe a…

Class Notes BY NAOIBH O’CONNOR, VANCOUVER COURIER JANUARY 18, 2012 KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION January means one thing for parents of children starting kindergarten in September-deciding what school to enrol their child in. The deadline is Jan. 31 to be given first consideration over those who apply later. Neighbourhood schools remain popular, but many families opt for specialty…

This is clearly such a divisive issue in New Jersey. Have Mandarin programs been that elsewhere, or is it simply because this is a charter? There was opposition in Palo Alto to their program, because it wasn’t available to everyone (though not everyone wanted it.) Has anyone seen this level of opposition before? Who’s Interested…

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Please note that for all the camps et al I post, I don’t have personal knowledge of them and am not vouching for them, I’m just passing along the information. Beth   Plan Ahead for one of the Best Chinese Language Programs in China; Live on Campus and Earn College Credit. Presented by CLERC since…