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  • Fremont, CA immersion – 90% Mandarin

    Mandarin immersion: 90 percent of curriculum in Chinese by Shannon Barry Posted: 01/06/2011 02:31:23 PM PST Click photo to enlarge A class of kindergarteners at Joseph Azevada Elementary School is learning the same core instruction of reading, writing and arithmetic as its peers at the school but is being immersed in a completely different way of…

  • Forget Chinese, learn Spanish, says NY Times

    [My own op ed – the man has a point. But I figure it’s easier to learn Chinese as a little kid and then pick up Spanish in high school than the other way around – Beth] Op-Ed Columnist Primero Hay Que Aprender Español. Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen. By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: December 29,…

  • Wall Street Journal on the new East Bay immersion school

    By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER Weighing the public education options for his two children, El Cerrito doctor Michael Jugo felt the East Bay fell short. He wanted them to have an advantage he didn’t have growing up: learning Chinese at school. “The writing was on the wall that there wasn’t going to be an option for…

  • Boston Immersion school supporters out in force at meeting

    From Sampan, New England’s Chinese newsletter. Diverse supporters of Mandarin immersion school unite by Staff Writer on December 17, 2010 Lisa Du Breuil and Mary Xiaohui Breuil -a Caucasian mother and her five-year-old Chinese-born daughter – arrived early and grabbed front row seats at a public hearing held at Boston City Hall on December 7. …

  • More on Illinois’ first Mandarin immersion program

    D220 approves Chinese classes By Carolyn Rusin TribLocal reporter Yesterday at 12:56 p.m. Barrington School District 220 will offer a Mandarin Chinese immersion program for tots through teens next fall, now that the board of education has voted to accept a $1.5 million federal matching grant for the program for five years. School board members…

  • Barrington, Illinois to get Mandarin immersion program

    from the Barrington Patch Board of Education Accepts Chinese Immersion Grant On Dec. 7, the Barrington 220 Board of Education accepted a federal grant that will allow Mandarin Chinese language instruction to be taught at the elementary school level.  The new program will begin in the 2011-2012 school year. Barrington 220 School District is the…

  • New Mandarin immersion charter approved in Bay area

    And they’re looking for a principal…. YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. Now, we are searching for a founding principal. Overview New Mandarin immersion public charter school in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks an experienced and entrepreneurial leader to head an academically rigorous K-8 program that graduates students who are bilingual, biliterate and…