Author: Elizabeth Weise

Congrats to our friends down in Los Angeles, who after a ton of work over a full year got what sounds like a great program up and running. The Los Angeles public schools need programs like this to get more middle class families thinking about public schools, and putting this one in the heart of…

Central and South Asia Speaking in Tongues and Dreaming in Chinese By Patrick Cox ⋅ September 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Yahoo! Buzz A new PBS documentary, Speaking in Tongues, follows four students and their families at dual immersion schools in San Francisco. The film offers evidence that the study of math, science…

[From the Latin American Herald Tribune] Documentary Explores Importance of Bilingualism in U.S. By Ivan Mejia LOS ANGELES – The documentary “Speaking in Tongues” explores the importance for U.S. students in the 21st century of learning to speak other languages in public school immersion programs. “‘Speaking in Tongues’ is a documentary about children who attend…

The students say hi: ‘Ni hao, Fluffy’ A Closer Look: Education reporter Jennifer Moreau visits Ms. Tang’s Mandarin class By Jennifer Moreau, Burnaby Now September 18, 2010 Story Photos ( 3 ) More Images » Learning to communicate: Teacher Deborah Tang shows students in Burnaby’s first Mandarin class how to say hello. The 22 kindergarten…

From CBC News: Some of the learning materials provided by Confucius Classroom. a Chinese-funded agency promoting Mandarin language classes in Coquitlam, B.C. (CBC) The B.C. Teachers’ Federation says it’s concerned about a Metro Vancouver school program funded by the Chinese government. A Mandarin language program taught to kindergarten and Grade 1 students in Coquitlam has…

It will be interesting to track what happens in Colorado Springs. I’ve been curious to know whether the immersion preschools come first, and create demand for immersion schools, or whether they can exist independently. Does anyone know of places where it’s gone one way or the other? Here are two immersion preschools, one in Seattle,…

Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Post · Monday, Sept. 13, 2010 Tucked behind Toronto’s big University Avenue hospitals, Orde Street Junior Public School bustles in a four-storey red-brick schoolhouse built in 1914, boasting tall wood frame windows with solid stone sills. A beatific coronation portrait of Queen Elizabeth II hangs in the lobby, bookended by four flags…