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  • San Mateo school’s Mandarin program gets $1.4 million boost

    // San Mateo school’s Mandarin program gets $1.4 million boost By Neil Gonzales San Mateo County Times Posted: 08/26/2010 10:11:18 PM PDT Updated: 08/26/2010 10:49:38 PM PDT // // 0){ document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.width = requestedWidth + “px”; document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.margin = “0px 0px 10px 10px”; } // ]]>SAN MATEO — A federal grant of $1.4 million will transform the San Mateo-Foster…

  • Free screening of Speaking in Tongues in SF – Thurs. Sept. 2nd

    KQED TOWN HALL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO Free film screening of SPEAKING IN TONGUES with panel discussion Thursday, September 2, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco Panelists include: Kevin Chávez Dual Immersion / Special Education Supervisor Hydra Mendoza School Board Member and Mayor Newsom’s Education Advisor Lissa Kim Korean Dual Immersion Teacher…

  • SF Mandarin Middle School – The Last Word?

    The San Francisco Mandarin Immersion Parents Council met yesterday evening to discuss the district’s draft middle school plan and what changes, if any, the group might like to propose to parents and the district leadership.  Here are my notes from that discussion… Summary The Jose Ortega parents are generally satisfied  with the current middle school plan,…

  • Hiring bilingual babysitters to get bilingual kids

    Nothing on Mandarin here, but I know many parents have asked about hiring Mandarin-speaking nannies and babysitters so that their kids are bilingual. It certainly works – the Russian aristocracy always hired French-speaking nannies so that their children grew up speaking French perfectly. == The New York Times By JENNY ANDERSON Published: August 18, 2010…

  • SF Middle School Language Pathways

    Yesterday we reported that we had no information about how the Mandarin immersion program would be handled within the new middle school plan.  Upon closer inspection, the school district’s presentation on the subject does give some information about this.  The answer was on the 40th slide of their giant powerpoint deck (you need to scroll…

  • SF Middle School Feeder Patterns

    Hot off the press!  Several San Francisco Mandarin immersion parents are attending the school board meeting tonight and one got a copy of the proposed middle school feeder patterns which she kindly scanned and shared with us.  Click here to see it for yourself. In summary, the document seems to contradict what we thought we…

  • Mandarin immersion charter proposed for west-of-Boston towns

    By Scott O’Connell/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News Posted Aug 18, 2010 @ 12:14 AM MARLBOROUGH — A proposed charter school serving MetroWest will focus on bilingual education in Mandarin Chinese, according to a prospectus submitted to the state for approval last month. The Hop Brook Regional Public Charter School was among 42 charter…