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  • Portland’s Woodstock Elementary celebrates 100 years

    From Oregon.Live Woodstock Elementary School will celebrate 100 years as a school with an open house on from 1 to 3 p.m. May 21. The event includes an alumni reunion, a tour of the school, and a show about how far the school has come through student creative performances. “For alumni to come back and…

  • Questions about Mandarin immersion? We’ve got answers May 24

    “Things I Wish I’d Known:  Current Mandarin immersion parents offer up what they’ve learned to incoming MI families” Tuesday, May 24, 2011 6:00-7:30 PM Jose Ortega Elementary School (in the library) 400 Sargent Street San Francisco At this meeting of the Mandarin Immersion Parents Council, current MI parents from Jose Ortega and Starr King will…

  • NJ districts discuss two Mandarin immersion chargers

    Millburn Hosts Panel Discussion on Charter Schools Princeton school officials among those talking about the cost of charter schools to school districts. By Marilyn Joyce Lehren and Laura Griffin |  May 9, 2011     Updated, 9:30 a.m. Tuesday School leaders from four neighboring school districts gathered in Millburn on Monday night to learn more…

  • San Diego Mandarin teachers’ pink slips rescinded

    Teachers’ Pink Slips Rescinded Monday, May 9, 2011 | Updated 10:09 PM PDT Getty Images Four teachers at a special magnet school in Point Loma will have their pink slips rescinded. advertisement By Rory Devine A reprieve this afternoon for a Mandarin Chinese immersion program in Point Loma, after 80 percent of their mandarin teachers…

  • LA Times: Dual-language immersion growing

    Kylie Hwang reads in Korean to her second-grade class at Keppel Elementary School in Glendale. The Glendale Unified School District has become one of the nation’s leading laboratories for dual-language immersion, offering programs in Italian, German, Spanish, Armenian, Japanese and Korean. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times) Dual-language immersion programs growing in popularity Dual-language immersion programs…

  • Phoenix, Arizona immersion program Confusius Classrooms celebration

    ASU Confucius Institute launches Chinese program in local schools May 06, 2011 The Confucius Classrooms at Boulder Creek, Diamond Canyon and Gavilan Peak will have a joint Confucius Classrooms Celebration at 7:00 pm on Friday, May 6 at Boulder Creek High School.  Boulder Creek, Diamond Canyon and Gavilan Peak students will perform skits, songs, a…

  • New Mandarin program in Lake Forest, Ill. gets $22,000 in grants

    Cherokee School Awarded Two Grants for New Mandarin Immersion Program By Lake Forest School District 67 Yesterday at 11:37 a.m. Cherokee Elementary School has been awarded two grants so far to help fund the district’s new Mandarin immersion program. The Spirit of 67 has generously committed $3,000 to purchase kindergarten and first grade materials written…