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  • Venice, Calif. MI students celebrate the Spring Festival

    Broadway Elementary in Venice Celebrates Chinese New Year Students in the Mandarin Immersion Program at Broadway Elementary in Venice celebrate the Year of the Dragon. (A tip o’ the pen to Patch, AOL’s local news organization. They’re doing some of the best local coverage of immersion programs nationwide. If there is a Patch blog in…

  • The Growing Alternative To English-Only Education

    Immersion Programs Offered In English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, French By Alyse Shorland POSTED: 1:35 pm PST January 25, 2012
UPDATED: 5:34 am PST January 26, 2012  Email  Print 0 comments At Monday’s debate in Florida, Newt Gingrich said this week he supports English as an official language of the United States: “I think it is essential…

  • Vancouver Wash. Mandarin immersion program celebrates its first Chinese New Year

    Fired up for year of the dragon at Vancouver elementary Photo by Zachary Kaufman Portland Lee’s Association Lion Dance Team performs during a program to celebrate the Chinese New Year at Ben Franklin Elementary School on Friday. By Jacques Von Lunen, Columbian staff writer Friday, January 20, 2012 By Zachary Kaufman First-graders in Ben Franklin Elementary…

  • San Francisco’s Starr King Elementary prepares for New Year’s parade

      BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhuanet) — San Francisco’s Chinese New Year’s parade has been called the largest celebration of Asian culture outside of Asia. This year, as many as a million spectators will watch thousands of people marching in the parade including 100 people who will carry a giant golden dragon. The parade is the culmination…

  • Denver Mandarin immersion students prepare for New Year

    Chinese New Year: Ring in the Year of the Dragon with dances, art, food and kung fu POSTED: 01/19/2012 04:39:05 PM MST UPDATED: 01/19/2012 04:39:10 PM MST By The Denver Post Kindergartners from the Denver Language School rehearsed a play they will peform at Hamilton Middle School celebrating the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon.…

  • An adoption story from China

    Pot stickers help bridge gap between China and America January 19, 2012|By Huntly Collins, For The Inquirer Mia Qian Miller Collins in Qibao, an ancient Chinese town on the edge of Shanghai. Brought… Tears streamed down my face as the bus carrying our family and a dozen other Americans, all adopting parents, pulled out of…

  • Mandarin immersion in San Diego

    Chinese, It’s the New Spanish By Elizabeth Salaam | Published Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 Photo by Alan Decker Robert Dorsey is not Chinese, but he drives 25 miles from El Cajon to Point Loma every morning so his two daughters can learn to speak, read, and write in Mandarin. “In my culture, it’s English, Ebonics, and maybe a…