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Politics – Published Wednesday, 06 July 2011 14:33 | Author: AFP / The Swedish Wire Chinese to be taught in all Swedish schools • Swedes place 4th in English skills rankingWithin a decade, all Swedish primary schools should offer Chinese lessons, Sweden’s education minister was quoted as saying Wednesday, insisting the move was needed to improve competitiveness. “I want to…

From the Asia Society newsletter The Arts as Inquiry Animate Language Learning  (Asia Society Museum) By Heather Clydesdale When students of Chinese explore art in conjunction with language, they not only have fun, they unravel abstract concepts, deepen cultural understanding, and build language proficiency. There are many ways to enliven lessons, whether by encouraging students…

This is about a summer school program, but near the end they say a school in 2012-2013 is possible. Camp immerses young students in Chinese language By JACKIE BORCHARDT Star-Tribune staff writer | Posted: Sunday, July 24, 2011 1:45 am DAN CEPEDANing Zhao gives a high five to a student during an exercise at a full-immersion Chinese language…

  From Newsweek.com ====== How to Raise a Global Kid Taking Tiger Mom tactics to radical new heights, these parents are packing up the family for a total Far East Immersion.   Happy Rogers was the only American in her graduating class at Nanyang Primary School in Singapore. Happy Rogers, age 8, stands among her…

The Lake Oswego School District will offer two half-day Kindergarten Mandarin Immersion classes in 2011-12, contingent upon hiring qualified staff and on achieving sufficient enrollment to support the program. These classes will be located at River Grove Elementary School . Instruction time is 50% in Mandarin and 50% in English. The literacy component of instruction employs the Read Well program,…

Charter School Battle Shifts to Affluent Suburbs Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Founders of a proposed Mandarin-immersion charter school meeting in a South Orange, N.J., home. From left, Jutta Gassner-Snyder, Nancy Chu, Tom Piskula and Tiffany Boyd Hodgson. By WINNIE HU Published: July 16, 2011 MILLBURN, N.J. — Matthew Stewart believes there is a place…

From the CAIS Institute blog By Elaine Connell (Photos by KazTsuruta) The two-year-old Mandarin Storytelling Program developed through the collaboration of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has been an exciting and thoroughly rewarding success. The inspiration for the program was the Museum’s 16 year old Storytelling Program…