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  • Houston’s Mandarin immersion school to open fall of 2012

    HARVIN MOORE Harvin Moore: Why immersing HISD pupils in Mandarin Chinese will enhance learning, global edge First-grade classroom in San Diego’s Barnard Chinese Magnet Immersion School, showing both the use of physical activities and songs to reinforce learning, and also the diversity of the school, which is 38 percent Latino, 36 percent Anglo, 16 percent African-American,…

  • Moving to Beijing – the nuts and bolts of the matter

    Admit it – at some point in the dark of the night you’ve thought “You know, the REAL way to get my kids to learn Mandarin would just be to move to China. What am I doing here in (San Francisco/Seattle/St. Paul/Denver/your-city-name-here) anyway? China’s the wave of the future. We should just MOVE.” Well, San…

  • Mandarin thriving in Minnesota

        PHOTO BY BRYNA GODAR Siblings Cassidy and Cormac Calcaterra in their uniforms at Yinghua Academy. Chinese immersion schools growing in popularity BY BRYNA GODAR NORTHEAST PARK — At Yinghua Academy, children’s art lines the walls – thumbprint trees, traced hands, self-portraits. It looks like most elementary school hallways, but the kids have signed their…

  • New Jersey PTA opposes Mandarin Immersion K-5 because it has Chinese in high school

    OP-ED: West Orange Council of PTAs Weighs in on Charter School Application Council urges residents to sign a petition opposing the approval of the Hua Mei Charter School. 9:23 am       Upload Photos and Videos Dear West Orange Families: We need your support to save our district’s funding and not allow the State Department of…

  • Portland, long a leader in Mandarin immersion, adding French

    French immersion charter school gets green light to open in Portland next fall Published: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 7:09 PM     Updated: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 7:32 PM  By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian  Follow 2 Tweet ShareEmailPrint On a 4-3 vote, the Portland school board tonight approved the launch of a publicly funded French immersion elementary school in…

  • Some parents oppose Park City, Utah immersion programs

    Dual-immersion in the neighborhood McPolin will hold a meeting at the school on Dec. 15 Megan Yeiter , The Park Record Posted: 12/13/2011 04:42:12 PM MST Several parents and community members are concerned about McPolin Elementary School’s dual-immersion program, which is set to be implemented next year. According to Park City School District Director of Curriculum…

  • Portland Ore., home to a storied Mandarin program, may get French too

    After a lengthy public hearing and discussion Monday, the Portland school board is poised to decide Thursday whether to approve the metro area’s first public French immersion school. Backers of the proposed Le Monde Public Charter School want to open a 400-student full immersion French language school in Southwest Portland next fall. They would start with…