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by Nishi Gupta KTVB.COM Posted on August 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM Updated yesterday at 6:28 PM MERIDIAN — A school in Meridian may be the first of its kind in the state. The Gateway School of Language and Culture will offer an intense Mandarin Chinese program to some of its students this year. It’s…
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Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system. Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong Kong, Li already finds that when she picks up a pen to write, the characters for words as simple as “embarrassed” have…
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// 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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
