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Just ordinary children By Elaine Wang When we came to China 3 months ago, I knew our kids would have a different kind of education from the US.  three months later, that assumption has become a reality. First, the obvious difference is that teachers here do not praise kids often ( actually, so far, not…

Deer Valley schools embrace Mandarin Chinese instruction Language being taught at 3 Deer Valley campuses 10 comments by Kristena Hansen – Dec. 22, 2011 12:03 PM The Arizona Republic Think back to elementary school and imagine being taught for the first time how to multiply fractions, use the metric system and why seasons change, but in Chinese. If…

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,…

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…

    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…

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…

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…