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  • Casper, Wyo. may get Mandarin immersion in year

    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…

  • Extreme Mandarin immersion – moving to China

      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…

  • Lake Oswego, Ore. opening more Mandarin classrooms.

    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,…

  • Why some NJ parents are fighting Mandarin immersion charters

    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…

  • Designing a “Win-Win” Mandarin Storytelling Program between Schools and Museums

    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…

  • 71,493 Americans live in China

    U.S. expatriates pursue American dream in China By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY  JIANKOU GREAT WALL, China — His sweat pools quickly as Carl Setzer carries another heavy sack of smoked malt into his farmhouse-turned-brewery beside the Great Wall of China near Beijing. By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAYCleveland native Carl Setzer, 29, delights in using unusual ingredients at his…

  • No Mandarin if things are “humming along.”

    As part of its on-going and excellent coverage of Mandarin immersion charter school issues in New Jersey, Patch.com has a nice article today about a state education task force hearing in New Jersey today and some of the issues being raised there. One of the most fascinating tidbits is this, about the state’s acting Education…