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From Patch The Board of Education will urge New Jersey school leaders to deny applications for two Mandarin-immersion charter schools in Livingston. Voting unanimously, the board members hope a letter – now in draft form – will persuade Acting Education Commission Christopher Cerf to deny charters for Hanyu International Academy Charter School and Hua Mei…

A production crew  from China Central Television was filming at Starr King Elementary school in San Francisco on Friday. The focus of her story was on “the rise in Mandarin immersion programs in the United States,” says Rachel Silverman of CCTV. The story should air in the coming weeks. We’ll post a link to it…

The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature Edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender Paper, 800 pages, 1 map ISBN: 978-0-231-15313-3 $37.50 May, 2011 Cloth, 800 pages, 1 map ISBN: 978-0-231-15312-6 $105.00 / £72.50 In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world’s leading sinologists, Victor H.…

From the Lake Oswego Review Board should vote ‘si’ or ‘shide’ for Spanish, Chinese immersion program By Sarah Howell , May 19, 2011 SUBMITTED FILE PHOTO The Lake Oswego School District’s Mandarin PreK immersion program, shown here during a special program earlier this year at Palisades Elementary School, is providing valuable language experience to students…

Just found this web site by a group of families working for immersion near Silicon Valley. ===== About Multilingual Kids Bienvenidos! Ni Hao! Welcome!  We’re a group of San Carlos, Belmont, and Redwood Shores families who are interested in increasing the language learning opportunities for our school-aged children.  We are advocating for Spanish and/or Mandarin language immersion…

What we don’t understand is why, if there’s clearly so much interest in Mandarin in this part of NJ, the school district’s don’t simply launch Mandarin immersion programs. Generally speaking, MI programs don’t cost that much more as bilingual teachers aren’t paid more. From Maplewood Patch Cerf’s Comments Spur Questions About Support for ‘Boutique’ Charters…

From the Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota CARLA Summer Institutes 2011 (To see on the web, go here.) Hurry and register! The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program for second language teachers since 1996. This…