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Jose Ortega Elementary School, in the Ingleside neighborhood, has several openings in its 2nd grade Mandarin Immersion program for Fall 2009. Starr King Elementary School, on top of San Francisco’s Potrero hill, has several openings in its 3rd grade Mandarin Immersion program for Fall 2009. This would be an excellent opportunity for children who come…
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The San Francisco public school Mandarin Immersion programs just keep getting more popular! Here are the statistics for the number of Kindergarten students enrolled in the programs since their creation… Source: Five Year Comparison of Round 1 Demand Starr King Starr King Elementary School Mandarin Immersion Program, Kindergarten Capacity: 44 Total Requests 2006-07: 33 2007-08:…
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Signing your kids up for language immersion education is a leap of faith, especially if you don’t understand the language they’re going to be spending the better part of the day speaking at school. Read the whole article by Beth Weise here… http://portal.sfusd.edu/data/news/pdf/School%20Times%20-%20Winter%2009%20ENGLISH%20final.pdf
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From Tammy Radmer, SF/Advocates for Multilingual Excellence, Monroe Elementary and James Lick Middle School Spanish Immersion Parent To my listservs & blind carbon copied folks, Okay, I know some of you are flinching at the thought of yet another evening meeting, and have no tolerance for another dry presentation on the merits of immersion, but you…
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Monday, March 16, 2009 – 6:00-7:30pm James Lick Middle School 1220 Noe Street, 25th Street and Noe Street An interactive and inspirational evening with Dr. Myriam Met Dr. Myriam Met, an international speaker and educator, is a renowned expert on foreign language programs with an emphasis on immersion programs. How fluent do students become? Does…
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2009) In another “Freakonomics”-style study that turns conventional wisdom about public- versus private-school education on its head, a team of University of Illinois education professors has found that public-school students outperform their private-school classmates on standardized math tests, thanks to two key factors: certified math teachers, and a modern, reform-oriented math curriculum.
