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  • National Chinese Language Conference: Boston April 7 – 9

    I won’t be attending this conference but would love to run reports from any parents, teachers or principals who are. If you’d like to be a correspondent, email me. Beth On the Main Stage April 7–9, 2013 | Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel Just confirmed for NCLC 2013: Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong (黄西)! Joe has…

  • Language camps in Orange County

    I post these not to frustrate those who *don’t* live in Orange County, but rather so you can see the sorts of places that tend to put together these kinds of summer camps. For those in areas where Mandarin immersion is fairly new and summer activity camps haven’t gotten started yet, this could give you…

  • Capistrano Unified’s new Mandarin program makes $59K in fundraiser

    By MORGAN McLAUGHLIN / FOR THE REGISTER Dice flew and chips piled up as guests in traditional 旗袍 Chinese brocade dresses and shirts whooped it up at the 2nd annual Friends of MIP (Mandarin Immersion Program) Chinese New Year Fundraiser Celebration. The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana turned casino for one night, and supporters of the…

  • Make Parents Your Allies in Language Immersion

    From the Asia Society. Jamila Nightingale is doing great work here in the San Francisco Bay area to support African-American families with children in Mandarin immersion programs. I strongly encourage schools to reach out to Parents of African American Students Studying Chinese (PASSC) to talk about creating groups in your own schools and districts. San Francisco’s very…

  • StarTalk Summer Institute for Mandarin immersion teachers

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  • How can dual immersion education help raise test scores? Do bilingual children learn better?

    Proposition 227 all but eliminated bilingual education in California schools in 1998. The law mandated that English be used as the primary language to teach non-English-speaking kids in schools. In recent years, a different form of secondary language acquisition has been gaining traction in Los Angeles public school system. They are called “dual language immersion”…

  • Louisiana may get Immersion High School

    LAFAYETTE — It will take some “seed money” to get a proposed immersion high school off the ground in Lafayette, but just how much is still unknown, said members of a committee studying what it would take to open the Lafayette school. The committee’s work is outlined in Act 851, authorized by the Legislature in…