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  • Columbia SC to get Mandarin immersion

    Wednesday, Mar. 09, 2011 USC helps launch Mandarin Chinese immersion school COLUMBIA, S.C. — The University of South Carolina’s Confucius Institute is helping launch a Mandarin Chinese immersion school that opens in the fall. USC spokeswoman Peggy Binette said Wednesday the Institute is helping arrange for five teachers from China to serve on the faculty…

  • Shanghai: Head of the (global) class

    Shanghai: Head of the (global) class What can we learn from China’s top-scoring school system? By Connie Matthiessen Shanghai, China Let’s say you’re a 10-year-old student in Shanghai. What are you doing differently from millions of students around the world? Do you begin with military-style math drills followed by monk-like recitations of philosophy? Not exactly.…

  • 3 SF Chinese immersion schools win at Chinese New Year Parade!

    2011 SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CHINESE NEW YEAR PARADE JUDGING RESULTS   MARCHING SCHOOLS 1st Place  Starr King Elementary School (San Francisco Mandarin immersion) 2nd Place  Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila Elementary School (San Francisco Cantonese immersion)   SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS (in alphabetical order) International School of the Peninsula (Private Mandarin immersion) St. Mary’s Chinese Girls’ Drum…

  • 2011 Chinese Language Education Forum Nv 12-13, 2011

      NOVEMBER 12-13, 2011 HYATT REGENCY SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT Connect your skills with experts in the most critical topics in contemporary Chinese Language education. To be discussed are the following; follow us on our website as the program develops! ✔ Curriculum, materials and articulation of Chinese programs ✔ Pedagogy, technologies and classroom management ✔ Cultural…

  • Does your school have a FLAP grant? Call Congress…

    American Council on Immersion Education Educating Globally Competent Leaders WHY CONTINUATION OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (ESEA-Title V, Part D, Subpart 9) IS CRITICAL TO THE NATIONAL INTEREST •International and foreign language education programs in the U.S. Department of Education— such as the K-12 Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP)—support our nation’s long-term national security,…

  • Mandarin only one of charter schools starting in Alameda

    Charter schools on the rise in Alameda Submitted by Michele Ellson on 1, February 28, 2011 – 12:03 amNo Comment Nea Community Learning Center’s lead facilitator, Maafi Gueye, talks to prospective families on Tuesday. * Jason and Anne Buckley moved to Alameda a year ago specifically for its good public schools. They have since determined…

  • Illinois school gets $1.5 million grant for Mandarin

    By Eric Peterson Sen. Dick Durbin visited Barbara Rose School in South Barrington Friday afternoon to observe a first-grade Chinese-language immersion class and formally present the $1.5 million federal grant that made it possible. Middle school students from Barrington Unit District 220 also were there to greet the senator with dancing Chinese dragons and share…