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  • Houston to open new K-8 Mandarin immersion school

    Starting the 2012–2013 school year HISD’s first-ever Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School will be located at Gordon Elementary.  HISD is currently accepting applications for students in prekindergarten to second grade, and students currently enrolled at Gordon are encouraged to apply. Click on the link for more information about the program and how to apply. Gordon…

  • Does Mandarin immersion promote “resentment toward a class or race”?

    Kind of fascinating. John Huppenthal is the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction who has banned state funding for ethnic studies programs in the state, based on a state law which bans “classes that promote resentment toward a race or class.” However he seems to be in favor of Mandarin immersion. I do wonder if this would be the…

  • An interesting model for a Mandarin summer camp

    Dragonfly Design Announces 2012 Creative Explorers Summer Camps Dragonfly Designs, a mobile jewelry-making company based in South San Francisco, unveils its new Creative Explorers Camp this summer. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 17, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — Dragonfly Designs, a mobile jewelry-making company based in South San Francisco, unveils its new Creative Explorers Camp this summer. After three years…

  • Beaverton, Ore. Mandarin charter

    View full size Katie Currid/The OregonianMolly Heywood, one of the founders of Hope Chinese Charter School, puts a helmet on the head of Julian Heywood, 3, as her daughter, Brooklynn, rides her bicycle around the block. Students at Beaverton’s newest public charter school will spend most of their days this fall reading, writing and singing…

  • Dance at an immersion school

    Legacy of dance grant will live on By Clint Riese on June 13, 2012 at 10:41 am Perpich Center for the Arts grant went to LILA in FL LILA teachers Raul Arroyo (Minneapolis), Jenni Muras (Hugo), Fred Moreno (Oakdale), Claire Gilbert (Forest Lake) and Jade Hibbard (White Bear Lake) enthusiastically demonstrate the five elements of dance: body, action, space,…

  • Maintaining a language at home

    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…

  • Asian Americans have overtaken Latinos as immigrants

    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…