Author: Elizabeth Weise

This thoughtful take on the President’s immigration executive order comes from the head of the Chinese American International School, the nation’s oldest Chinese immersion school, based in San Francisco. Too few programs teach about the history of Chinese-Americans in the United States and the terrible racism and bigotry that the community was subject to, especially the heinous Chinese…

Wishing everyone a happy Year of the Rooster. 快乐的一年的公鸡

The folks at CARLA, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition in Minnesota have made a great video to show how it works and why it’s important.

For anyone with kids in Mandarin immersion, here’s a look at what a well-planned K-12 program can look like. What happens with immersion in high school (in Utah)? Some people have expressed confusion about what happens to dual language immersion students when they get to high school. There have been some very exciting developments over the past…

Zhou Youguang, Who Made Writing Chinese as Simple as ABC, Dies at 111 New York Times By MARGALIT FOX JAN. 14, 2017 Zhou Youguang, known as the father of Pinyin for creating the system of Romanized Chinese writing that has become the international standard since its introduction some 60 years ago, died on Saturday in Beijing,…

The Eugene School ­District will offer a fifth language immersion program to its students beginning in the 2017-18 school year. At its meeting Wednesday, the Eugene School Board unanimously voted to approve the district’s proposal to implement a K-12 Mandarin Chinese program. But concerns about a split school location and equitable practices ­dominated the conversation…

International Partnerships in Education (IPIE.US) in cooperation with Hanbridge Mandarin are pleased to announce the 2017 International Language & Culture Camp in Shenzhen, China. The program is open to American and Chinese high school students. The summer camp program consists of a 15-day on-campus immersion environment where the American and Chinese high school students will…