Passing down a language THIS STORY APPEARED IN June 10, 2012 Classes are taught largely in Spanish at the Amigos School in Cambridge. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff ) When my brother and I were kids, our parents would sit us down for some evening conversation with a little girl named Hélène. Hélène was French; she…

As the presidential candidates battle over U.S.-Mexico immigration policy, a sweeping new survey shows that Asian Americans have overtaken Latinos nationally as the largest group of new immigrants arriving each year in the United States – a development with profound political and economic implications. Not only are Asian Americans the fastest-growing racial group in the…

2012 Heritage Language Teacher Workshop Workshop Dates: July 16-20, 2012   The StarTalk sponsored languages are:
Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish and Urdu. Instructors from K-16 programs and community schools are invited to apply. Additional spaces are available for other less commonly taught languages. The workshop is sponsored by Startalk and the National…

Posted: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 2:31 pm By KEVIN HEIMBIGNER kheimbigner@chinookobserver.com | 0 comments NASELLE — Instead of “Dick and Jane” and “See Spot Run,” the morning curriculum at Naselle for kindergartners next fall will be entirely in Mandarin Chinese if a proposal to include an immersion language curriculum is passed by the Naselle-Grays River Valley School Board at their…

The ability to speak more than one language is an asset to the individual, the community in which that person lives, and the world at large. Many adults who know only one language often lament the fact that they never had an opportunity to learn another language. But monolingualism can be cured! In fact, all…

Bilingual Buds names Director for NJ campus; announces expansion plans to Grade 5 Bilingual Buds Tuesday, May 22, 2012 • 3:06pm Bilingual Buds, a preschool/primary school on the forefront of immersion education, has named Renee Reyes to head its Summit, NJ campus. The school, known for its pioneering approach to academics in an immersion setting,…

Lakes International earns top state education award ‘Promising practices’ award Lakes International Language Academy, a K-6 language immersion charter school and International Baccalaureate World School in Forest Lake, was honored on Thursday, May 17 with a Minnesota Promising Practices in Character Education Award at the State Capitol in St. Paul. During the ceremony for the…