Dual-Language Programs Are on the Rise, Even for Native English Speakers By ELIZABETH A. HARRISOCT. 8, 2015 On one of the first days of class at Dos Puentes Elementary School in Upper Manhattan last month, a new student named Michelle peered up through pale blue glasses and took a deep breath. “Can I drink water?”…

I’m looking forward to speaking at Washington Yu Ying in Washington D.C. on October 7.  I had the pleasure of touring the school several years ago during the Asia Society’s National Chinese Language Conference and then wrote about it in my book, A Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion. Tonight I’ll be reading from my book and talking…

This is great research to support and I highly encourage families to take Ted’s survey (it took me all of 6 minutes.) Send it out to your schools, put it in your school newsletter and on your blog, get the word out. We need more data about family motivation’s and here we’ve got a motivated young Ph.D. student to…

Note the bit about creating a curriculum. Presumably it’s not focused on K-12 immersion but rather high school, but even so, perhaps some will trickle down to our Mandarin immersion programs. – Beth Beth When U.S. President Barack Obama announced the 100,000 Strong Initiative in November 2009, setting the goal of sending 100,000 American students…

Interview: Schoolyard Scuffles Posted September 16, 2015 by The Argonaut in News LAUSD Board of Education President Steve Zimmer on the winner-take-all attitudes that are hurting public schools Steve Zimmer, who represents the Westside on the LAUSD board and is now its president, says the California Charter Schools Association has taken “a combat approach” to…

I love it that the school’s name is 景美, which means Beautiful View in Mandarin. And of course the city it’s located in, Bellevue, also means Beautiful View. -Beth   == A new “beautiful view” — Jing Mei School starts off the school year in a new space Posted on 10 September 2015. Jing Mei, the only…

Federal official tours addition at Chinese Immersion school By DAVE EISENSTADTER HADLEY — Lian Duan, a middle school math teacher at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, has a large classroom on the fourth floor of the school’s new addition — but it wasn’t always that way. Her situation when she started teaching for…