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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…

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…

“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…

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…

Teachers’ Pink Slips Rescinded Monday, May 9, 2011 | Updated 10:09 PM PDT Getty Images Four teachers at a special magnet school in Point Loma will have their pink slips rescinded.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…

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…