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Yu Ming Charter School is a tuition-free Mandarin immersion public charter school which will open in Fall 2011 in the East Bay. Yu Ming Charter School’s mission is to: Provide an academically rigorous college preparatory program (K-8) Graduate bilingual students via two-way dual immersion in Mandarin Chinese and English Nurture intellectual curiosity and international perspective…

  Beyond Linguistic Proficiency Students as Linguists and Ambassadors By Jeff Wang “If you want one year of prosperity, then grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, then grow trees. But if you want 100 years of prosperity, then you grow people.” Quoting a Chinese proverb, US President Barack Obama offered this toast…

Mandarin for kindergartners planned for Dist. 67 By Donald Liebenson Special to the Tribune Yesterday at 12:06 p.m. Lake Forest School District 67 could become the latest among a small group of public schools in the country with a Mandarin immersion program starting in kindergarten. If there’s enough interest from parents, an English-Mandarin program would…

Proposed Mandarin Immersion Pilot – Grades K & 1 for 2011-12 Lake Forest School District 67 is exploring the option of offering one dual-language (English/Mandarin) kindergarten class and one first grade class beginning this coming fall. The program will offer half-day instruction in English and half-day instruction in Mandarin through fourth grade.  There has been…

Knowledge Universe reaches $1.6 billion in revenue STORY BY LINDA BAKER // PHOTOS BY LEAH NASH On the second floor of a KinderCare center in downtown Portland, eight preschoolers are coloring pictures of Chinese characters while listening to their teacher speak in Mandarin. On the other side of the room, which is decorated with parasols…

 Parlez en Mandarin, s’il vous plait Nineteen Vancouver schools have French immersion, but our taxes might be better spent on more practical languages Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Parlez+Mandarin+vous+plait/4201013/story.html#ixzz1CjQFKMRM There are 19 elementary and secondary schools with French immersion programs in the City of Vancouver. Two-thirds of them — no surprise this — are on the west…

VIDEO: Bejing Chorus Performs at College Park VIDEO: Bejing Chorus Performs at College Park 715 Indian Ave, San Mateo, CA College Park Elementary /articles/video-bejing-chorus-performs-at-college-park /locations/3161836 Happy Angel Chorus of Yi Shi Fu Xiao performed at College Park Elementary School Local children were entertained and educated by their international counterparts, as San Mateo-Foster City School District…