Author: Elizabeth Weise

The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature Edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender Paper, 800 pages, 1 map ISBN: 978-0-231-15313-3 $37.50 May, 2011 Cloth, 800 pages, 1 map ISBN: 978-0-231-15312-6 $105.00 / £72.50 In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world’s leading sinologists, Victor H.…

From the Lake Oswego Review Board should vote ‘si’ or ‘shide’ for Spanish, Chinese immersion program By Sarah Howell , May 19, 2011 SUBMITTED FILE PHOTO The Lake Oswego School District’s Mandarin PreK immersion program, shown here during a special program earlier this year at Palisades Elementary School, is providing valuable language experience to students…

Just found this web site by a group of families working for immersion near Silicon Valley. ===== About Multilingual Kids Bienvenidos! Ni Hao! Welcome!  We’re a group of San Carlos, Belmont, and Redwood Shores families who are interested in increasing the language learning opportunities for our school-aged children.  We are advocating for Spanish and/or Mandarin language immersion…

What we don’t understand is why, if there’s clearly so much interest in Mandarin in this part of NJ, the school district’s don’t simply launch Mandarin immersion programs. Generally speaking, MI programs don’t cost that much more as bilingual teachers aren’t paid more. From Maplewood Patch Cerf’s Comments Spur Questions About Support for ‘Boutique’ Charters…

From the Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota CARLA Summer Institutes 2011 (To see on the web, go here.) Hurry and register! The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program for second language teachers since 1996. This…

From Oregon.Live Woodstock Elementary School will celebrate 100 years as a school with an open house on from 1 to 3 p.m. May 21. The event includes an alumni reunion, a tour of the school, and a show about how far the school has come through student creative performances. “For alumni to come back and…

“Things I Wish I’d Known:  Current Mandarin immersion parents offer up what they’ve learned to incoming MI families” Tuesday, May 24, 2011 6:00-7:30 PM Jose Ortega Elementary School (in the library) 400 Sargent Street San Francisco At this meeting of the Mandarin Immersion Parents Council, current MI parents from Jose Ortega and Starr King will…