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  • Walnut Uses Grant To School Kindergarteners in Mandarin, English

    Students in the test dual immersion program for pre-kindergarteners became an official kindergarten cohort with the start of the school year on Monday. By Melanie C. Johnson View full size      Add your photos & videos In January, the Walnut Valley Unified School District tested out plans for a dual language immersion program with around 40…

  • Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego parents – come out to support Mandarin immersion Sept. 26th

    If anyone is in the LA/Orange County/San Diego area on September 26th, we would love to have you come help support our effort in getting Orange County’s 1st Mandarin Immersion Program launched in the Capistrano Unified School District. On this date, the School Board will make a decision to approve or disapprove the launch of…

  • For Mandarin teachers in the San Francisco Bay area

    Dear Colleagues, As the summer comes to an end, and students return to schools, it is once again time to think about professional development.  On behalf of the Confucius Institute at SF State , this is our second announcement to invite you to join us for this series of workshops on Chinese teaching. I personally hope that you will be…

  • 5 Q Channel Mandarin reading site gets a new look

    Just got this email from our friends in Taiwan who produce a Mandarin reading site. They’ve updated the site, making it easier for parents who don’t read Chinese to navigate. ==== The 5QChannel website has new design. Please check the URL: http://www.5qchannel.com/indexe2011.asp There are only four stories on the first page. They are all free…

  • Proposed Mandarin immersion charter in Princeton gains an ally

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Charter gains ally DATE POSTED: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:06 PM EDT By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor The legal battle between a proposed charter school and three public school districts has been joined. The New Jersey Charter Schools Association threw its support behind the Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS) in its…

  • Michigan School Exporting Education to China

    District expects to help fund its Michigan classrooms with Chinese tuition payments By MICHAEL VAN BEEK | Aug. 18, 2011 When the U.S. Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965 and created “magnet” schools, it’s unlikely that anyone at the time thought this might lead to the creation of international magnet schools, especially ones…

  • Mandarin saves a school in Venice, Calif.

    By Elizabeth Weise In 2009, Broadway Elementary, housed in a lovely Spanish-style building from 1924, was dying. The public school in Venice, Calif. could barely fill seven classes, one for each grade from Kindergarten to 6th. “Three years in a row I was called to the district for a small school meeting where we were…