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  • Grand Rapids Township, Mich. starts sister city relationship with Beijing

    GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MI – Third-graders enrolled in the Chinese Immersion Program at Meadow Brook Elementary today engaged in a conversation in Mandarin Chinese with the principal of their sister school in Beijing, China. “I am looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship between our two schools,” said Weidong Liang, principal of Yihai Campus of theBeijing…

  • Immersion maybe needed in failing schools but not successful ones

    Gov. Chris Christie talks school reform: A Q&A Published: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 7:09 AM  By Star-Ledger Staff  Star-Ledger file photoGov. Chris Christie speaks with Star-Ledger editorial page editor Tom Moran about education reform in New Jersey. If you judge by average tests scores, New Jersey has one of the nation’s best public education systems. But…

  • Immersion teachers hard to find.

    Calgary school board recruiters head to Spain on hiring spree French, Spanish and Mandarin teachers in demand BY RICHARD CUTHBERTSON, CALGARY HERALD APRIL 9, 2012   University of Calgary Education student Gabrielle Lyons will finish her French immersion teaching degree in the coming weeks at the University of Calgary. She has already secured a job…

  • Mandarin State of the Art

    April 13, 2012  plenary at the 5th annual National Chinese Language Conference in D.C. “The State of the Field: Proficiency, Sustainability and Beyond” The discussion was moderated by Martha Abbott, executive director of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Chinese is “one of the fastest growing educational movements in the United States,”…

  • 5th Annual National Chinese Language Conference: Opening night

     Over 1,200 people filled a ballroom in Washington D.C. Thursday evening to open the 5th Annual National Chinese Language Conference. Gov. Gaston Caperton, former governor of West Virginia and now the president of the College Board, told the teachers and administrators that AP Chinese is the fastest growing AP class in the country. Today there…

  • Will Chinese go the way of Japanese?

    Whither (not “Wither”) Japanese? By Anthony Jackson on February 7, 2012 5:44 AM Global economic trends have far-reaching effects. For instance, the language learning decisions made by students and their families often have to do with perceptions of future employability. I’ve asked one of Asia Society’s resident polyglots, Chris Livaccari, to reflect on this trend and put it in…

  • Honda Mandarin commercial

    Wait for the punch line….