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School shifting has 3 principals making moves By Rebecca Randall The Lake Oswego Review, May 20, 2010 On Monday, Superintendent Bill Korach announced the last round of recommendations for next year’s programming in the Lake Oswego School District, which include shifting three principals around to different schools. The merry-go-round shift accompanies changes in elementary school…
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The STARTALK/Confucius Institute Chinese language immersion sports camp is now accepting applications for its three-week residential program on the UH Mānoa campus. Thirty motivated middle and high school students, ages 12-17, with no or little experience in Chinese, will be selected to participate. Half will be from Hawai‘i and the rest from the U.S. mainland. Participants…
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(from the Clare County Review) Farwell BOE told 27 sign up for kindergarten Chinese The start of Monday night’s Farwell Area Schools Board of Education meeting was delayed so that Board members could attend the band concert that was scheduled at the same time as their usual 6:00 p.m. meeting. Acting as Chair for the…
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The founding families of East Bay Mandarin Immersion seek to create a public K-8 Mandarin immersion program in the East Bay targeted to open Fall 2011. Our children need skills such as cultural awareness, second language skills, creativity and critical thinking to effectively contribute to our global community. Come to our free informational meeting to…
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Jose Ortega parents have created laminated place mats of the San Francisco Unified School District Mandarin vocabulary. The placemats are 11″x17″ and come by grade level in sets of two — one mat has the Chinese characters only (for quizzing) and the second mat has the characters plus pinyin and English meanings (for study). The…
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Guest-Teaching Chinese, and Learning America Matt Nager for The New York Times Zheng Yue, who has been teaching Chinese in MacArthur High School in Lawton, Okla., working with a student, Raymond Veal. By SAM DILLON Published: May 9, 2010 LAWTON, Okla. — Zheng Yue, a young woman from China who is teaching her native language…
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Area students may get chance to learn Chinese By KATE CERVE kcerve@beaufortgazette.com 843-706-8177 Published Sunday, May 9, 2010 Read more: http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/05/09/1234622/area-students-may-get-chance-to.html#ixzz0nXzY5200 Ted Downing of Hilton Head Island has made more than 30 business trips to China over the past decade. On all of them, he just didn’t know what to say. He doesn’t speak Mandarin.…
