Author: Elizabeth Weise
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2009) In another “Freakonomics”-style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, a team of University of Illinois education professors has found that public-school students outperform their private-school classmates on standardized math tests, thanks to two key factors: certified math teachers, and a modern, reform-oriented math curriculum.
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Items discussed at the meeting of February 20, 2009 1) We have a website: Miparentscouncil.org 2) Summer Camps offering Mandarin 3) Mandarin Immersion Parents Council committees 4) CAIS Chinese Education Conference March 13th- 15th 5) Next Meeting: An evening with Mimi Met, March 16th , time and location TBD 6) Summer trips to China Website…
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Christopher Rosenberg, Aka Principal Rosenberg Mr. Rosenberg was a teacher at Starr King for eight years before becoming its principal five years ago, in 2003. He speaks English and Spanish and has learned to sing Happy Birthday in Chinese. He ably guides Starr King’s four strands — English, Spanish bilingual, Mandarin immersion and Special Education.…
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If your child is participating in the Chinese Language Bridge Cup, then you may know that the required poem for grades K-2 is “The Song of the Traveling Son 游子吟” by Mèng Jiāo 孟郊”. You can get some tips for reciting this poem from The King…
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The San Francisco Mandarin Immersion Parents Council will be meeting on Friday, February 20, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:30. Where Starr King Elementary School 1215 Carolina St, San Francisco, CA 94107 Bungalow B (in the playground) Childcare Childcare and dinner for children provided via a generous grant from the Mayor’s Office Agenda Summer Activities How do you…
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Stacey Leyton (A Starr King Mandarin immersion parent) was looking to find where our public school Mandarin immersion children live in San Francisco. The school district does not have the data organized by program, so she asked them to map the kids who are enrolled in the relevant grades at Starr King and Jose Ortega. In other…
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I was reading the newsletter from the CAIS (Chinese American International School) Institute, which is the non profit that CAIS put together to support Mandarin programs around the country. There are some interesting articles in here. I’m especially intrigued by the “Read First, Write Later” article by the head of CAIS, Andrew W. Corcoran. It’s an interesting concept. Basically, he’s saying that…
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