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  • 2012: The Year Mandarin Chinese Becomes a ‘Commonly Taught Language’?

    December 22nd, 2011 by Chris Livaccari A student at Aiton Elementary School in Washington, D.C., practices Chinese. (Grace Norman) This is part of a series of year-end posts on Asia Blog written by Asia Society experts and Associate Fellows looking back on noteworthy events in 2011. You can read the entire series here. In the…

  • Lawrence Summers says there’s no point to learning languages – others disagree

    What You (Really) Need to Know By LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS Published: January 20, 2012 A PARADOX of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be an educated man or woman. College campuses are…

  • Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese

    Speaking a foreign language is an impediment to being president, a recent podcast on NPR found. Please click here to read and hear the discussion.   John McWhorter, a contributing editor for The New Republic, wrote recently about past presidents, the current presidential candidates and the languages they speak. He explains why being bilingual may…

  • Some education policy stuff of interest

    This is from the Asia Society’s newsletter, on the topic of Education › Policy Initiatives › State Initiatives. While all this education jargon can get pretty difficult to understand at time, the general theme seems to be how standards are being set for what all students nationwide should be learning, and how those are going to be taught in Mandarin.…

  • NJ Mandarin charter not giving up – Gov. says charters (and Mandarin?) only for urban needy districts.

    Montclair Charter Founders Move On; Maplewood Charter Founders Give Up Quest founder says she needs feedback from the community By Shelley Emling Email the author 9:03 am      PHOTOS (1) VIDEOS (1)  Upload Photos and Videos Although the media has reported that the founders of the Hua Mei Charter School in Maplewood have decided not to…

  • Lake Oswego eyes K-5 Spanish now, Mandarin later

    BY REBECCA RANDALL The Lake Oswego Review, Feb 2, 2012 Lake Oswego School Superintendent Bill Korach suggested planning for a K-5 Spanish immersion program to begin in the fall while keeping an expansion of the school district’s Mandarin immersion program on deck for now. “We are not positioned right now to do two languages,” Korach told…

  • Mandarin for Future Mandarin Teachers (MFMT) July 2nd – August 10th, 2012

    Mandarin for Future Mandarin Teachers (MFMT) July 2nd – August 10th, 2012 Mandarin for Future Mandarin Teachers (MFMT) was established in 2006 through CI@CI, a partnership between China Institute and East China Normal University (ECNU). This summer program provides scholarships for a select group of pre-service and in-service Chinese language teachers to take professional development…