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  • 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…

  • French still more popular than Mandarin in Vancouver, Canada

    Class Notes BY NAOIBH O’CONNOR, VANCOUVER COURIER JANUARY 18, 2012 KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION January means one thing for parents of children starting kindergarten in September-deciding what school to enrol their child in. The deadline is Jan. 31 to be given first consideration over those who apply later. Neighbourhood schools remain popular, but many families opt for specialty…

  • Families who are arguing for Mandarin immersion in NJ

    This is clearly such a divisive issue in New Jersey. Have Mandarin programs been that elsewhere, or is it simply because this is a charter? There was opposition in Palo Alto to their program, because it wasn’t available to everyone (though not everyone wanted it.) Has anyone seen this level of opposition before? Who’s Interested…