Mark Twain Middle School in Mar Vista. Photo from Wikipedia “It’s really been an L.A. story,” said Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board member Steve Zimmer, who is in the middle of a classic Los Angeles conflict that reflects the city’s many cultures and tensions. The dispute is taking place in West Los Angeles,…

Boundary to change for popular Vancouver elementary school Franklin Elementary hosts Mandarin immersion program Benjamin Franklin Elementary School (Sue Vorenberg/The Columbian)<span” class=”btn btn-warning btn-xs pull-right btn-buyphoto”>Buy this photo 1 2 By Susan Parrish, Columbian education reporter Published: June 10, 2015, 10:00 AM On the Web Learn about Franklin Elementary’s Mandarin language immersion The Vancouver Public Schools board approved a boundary…

In the May 28 blog summary of the GPA’s transportation committee’s first meeting with SFMTA, traffic engineer Damon Curtis had promised to look into two things: –creating simultaneous protected lefts northbound and southbound on Diamond –switching the new protected northbound left on Diamond to be southbound in the evening to accommodate rush hour traffic Neither…

I know we have many families formed through adoption who read this blog, so I wanted to make you aware of a wonderful and very deeply reported work about adoptees returning to China. Please see the site here. Touching Home in China A Transmedia Work in Progress What happens when American teenagers adopted from China return…

Language immersion schools flourish in D.C. By Moriah Costa  /   June 12, 2015  /   No Comments LANGUAGE IMMERSION: Demand for language immersion programs are high in D.C., as evidenced by the long wait list. By Moriah Costa | Watchdog.org WASHINGTON, D.C. —Snippets of French, Mandarin, English and Spanish can be heard throughout the classrooms and…

Los Angeles parents have launched a website to keep families up to date on news about  their hugely-popular (among parents) but beleaguered (by the district) program at Broadway Elementary School. You can check out their blog here. Here’s some of the background on this.

June 4, 2015 By Joyce Gemperlein Tyler and his mother Susan Kramer in a classroom at Ohlone Elementary School in Palo Alto, Calif. (Photo by Norbert von der Groeben) Tyler and Susan Kramer in the Palo Alto, Calif., school where he studies Mandarin. (Photo by Norbert von der Groeben ) Two studies led by Amado…