Author: Elizabeth Weise

This is College Park Elementary School’s annual Friends of Mandarin Scholars Gala Fundraiser. Pretty impressive. And I say that not because they invited me to be one of their “special guests” (I’m nowhere near glamorous enough, clearly.) But for a program that’s in a public school and launched only in 2007, they’ve done a tremendous…

New York City Education Department to Add or Expand 40 Dual-Language Programs The New York City Education Department plans to expand dual-language programs offered in public schools, using the orchestra of local languages to spread bilingual little symphonies across the five boroughs — and perhaps to attract more middle-class families to poorer schools in the process. Carmen…

Wednesday hearing on Mandarin immersion charter school by Barbara Wood / Almanac The public will have another chance to comment about the Mandarin immersion charter school proposed for the Menlo Park City School District when the San Mateo County Board of Education holds a public hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 7. The meeting starts at 7…

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Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids DEC. 26, 2014 Photo CreditAndré Letria  Personal Journeys By  DANIELLE PERGAMENT It was summer in Tuscany. The rolling hills were adorned with their famous haystacks. The cypress trees were majestically verdant against the golden backdrop. We were in the picturesque Renaissance town Pienza, its spire shooting up into a cloudless…

The American dad writing in the blog post link below used to live in China and now lives in Chicago. He’s surprised at how much time, attention and money goes into kids’ sports here. An intriguing point of view. Though American parents might say that sports are in addition to the 6 hours a day kids spend in…