Author: Elizabeth Weise

Millburn Hosts Panel Discussion on Charter Schools Princeton school officials among those talking about the cost of charter schools to school districts. By Marilyn Joyce Lehren and Laura Griffin |  May 9, 2011     Updated, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday School leaders from four neighboring school districts gathered in Millburn on Monday night to learn more…

Teachers’ Pink Slips Rescinded Monday, May 9, 2011 | Updated 10:09 PM PDT Getty Images Four teachers at a special magnet school in Point Loma will have their pink slips rescinded. advertisement By Rory Devine A reprieve this afternoon for a Mandarin Chinese immersion program in Point Loma, after 80 percent of their mandarin teachers…

Kylie Hwang reads in Korean to her second-grade class at Keppel Elementary School in Glendale. The Glendale Unified School District has become one of the nation’s leading laboratories for dual-language immersion, offering programs in Italian, German, Spanish, Armenian, Japanese and Korean. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times) Dual-language immersion programs growing in popularity Dual-language immersion programs…

ASU Confucius Institute launches Chinese program in local schools May 06, 2011 The Confucius Classrooms at Boulder Creek, Diamond Canyon and Gavilan Peak will have a joint Confucius Classrooms Celebration at 7:00 pm on Friday, May 6 at Boulder Creek High School.  Boulder Creek, Diamond Canyon and Gavilan Peak students will perform skits, songs, a…

Cherokee School Awarded Two Grants for New Mandarin Immersion Program By Lake Forest School District 67 Yesterday at 11:37 a.m. Cherokee Elementary School has been awarded two grants so far to help fund the district’s new Mandarin immersion program. The Spirit of 67 has generously committed $3,000 to purchase kindergarten and first grade materials written…

If you spend any time looking for books for your kids in Chinese, you’ll quickly run across the website or catalog for Cheng and Tsui, a Boston-based publisher and distributor of materials for learning Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I just got their latest catalog and noticed that they’re marking certain books with a special note…

I just had my second grader home sick for two days and she watched a lot of 5Q Channel and ChildRoad. They’re nice for when you want to give your kids an online or video treat but you’d like it to be something that is educational. Here’s the latest release from 5Q Channel. ChildRoad.com has…