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At Stough Elementary in Raleigh, students learn in Mandarin BY SARAH BARR sbarr@newsobserver.comJanuary 30, 2015 Facebook Twitter http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.62da0a34306f5c17db7d290755ed1d7d.en.html#_=1424405915168&count=vertical&dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsobserver.com%2F2015%2F01%2F30%2F4517869_at-stough-elementary-in-raleigh.html%3Frh%3D1&size=m&text=RALEIGH%3A%20At%20Stough%20Elementary%20in%20Raleigh%2C%20students%20learn%20in%20Mandarin%20%7C%20Education%20%7C%20NewsObserver.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsobserver.com%2F2015%2F01%2F30%2F4517869%2Fat-stough-elementary-in-raleigh.html http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.a5bbbb7216610af1306d56b0f28a67d7.en.html#_=1424405915173&dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-2&lang=en&screen_name=newsobserver&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m Google Plus More LINKEDIN REDDIT YOUTUBE E-MAIL PRINT ORDER A REPRINT OF THIS STORY Chinese language immersion kindergarteners Matthew Sullivan, left, and Robert Sawyer, right, each turned to look for approval from their two teachers after…

Currently students just go through 5th grade and then have to wait until high school to take Mandarin again, when they enter into the same non-immerson system used for students not coming from immersion. Not ideal. Palo Alto school board backs Mandarin immersion program expansion Jordan Middle School could host new pilot program by Elena Kadvany /…

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One of the reasons this was rejected was because the school’s proposed charterl said that after 2nd grade it would only admit students who were proficient in Mandarin. Claire Cunningham, a legal counsel to the Office of Education, found fault with the proposed charter’s language proficiency requirement for children who want to enroll after second…

One board member was especially concerned that it wouldn’t meet the needs of special education students. === County board unanimously denies Mandarin immersion charter school proposal by Barbara Wood / Almanac The San Mateo County Board of Education on Wednesday night, Feb. 4, unanimously denied the Menlo Mandarin Immersion Charter School’s proposal to open a…

A nice info graphic. I speak Swedish, which is in the easy category. Oh well. See the story and graphic here.

At Stough Elementary in Raleigh, students learn in Mandarin BY SARAH BARR The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)January 30, 2015 RALEIGH — Kindergartner Ava Fletcher has been learning Mandarin for just a few months in her classroom at Stough Elementary School. But already she can write her name in Chinese characters, sing songs such as…