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  • The Economist: Being bilingual makes you mentally fit

    Variety makes you (mentally) fit Oct 17th 2014, 16:31 by R.L.G. | BERLIN FOR years, researchers in bilingualism have been touting striking findings about how bilingualism affects the brain. Two of the most memorable involve “executive control” and delayed dementia. With the first, bilinguals have shown that they are better able to focus on demanding mental…

  • LA Mandarin immersion students sing “Let it Go”

    So darling it will bring a tear to your eye. Elementary students in Broadway’s dual-language, Mandarin & English Program receive a rigorous education in language arts, social studies, mathematics, and sciences in adherence with the Common Core State Standards. Students receive instruction across all subject areas in both English and Mandarin for equal parts of…

  • Meeting on Menlo Park, Calif. Mandarin charter school Oct. 14

    Mandarin charter proposal scrutinized by community, district by Barbara Wood / Almanac Community members who want to know how a proposed Mandarin immersion charter school could affect the Menlo Park City School District asked lots of questions but learned there are still a lot of unknowns involved in the answers at a meeting on Thursday (Oct.…

  • Wake County, N.C. school district seeks to keep families public with magnet immersion

      Wake school plan looks to boost immersion programs at Broughton, Daniels BY T. KEUNG HUI khui@newsobserver.comOctober 12, 2014 Updated 6 hours ago Monica Arbeláez works with Sawyer Hunter in her kindergarten class at Jeffreys Grove Elementary School in Raleigh on Wednesday. Students in kindergarten and first grade at Jeffreys Grove take all of their core…

  • Sandy, Utah. Population 87,000. Immersion schools: 8

    I know it can sometimes seem the only place I post about is Utah. But dear heavens, they are really the place in the country that’s doing immersion the most intensively. This is just one town, with a population of 87,461, and it’s got eight immersion elementary schools. That’s more than some states! Canyons district taking dual…

  • Someone’s finally done it! GREAT Chinese readers for our kids

    I don’t know how I missed these, but someone has finally created some interesting, age-appropriate stories for our Chinese immersion students. They’re great! Here’s their website http://mandarincompanion.com/ Check out the titles: The Secret Garden Sherlock Holmes The Monkey’s Paw The Country of the Blind The Sixty-year dream (Rip Van Winkle) As anyone who read this blog…

  • Ohio gets its first Mandarin immersion school

    foreign language immersion school set to open next year in cleveland ERIN O’BRIEN | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2014 SHARE  Educational opportunities for Cleveland grade-schoolers could soon expand with the addition of a new foreign language immersion school in the 2015-16 school year. Last February, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) gave theGlobal Ambassadors Language Academy (GALA) the thumbs…