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  • English at Home – Chinese at School

    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

  • Public Schools Outperform Private in Math

    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.

  • Chinese New Year Parade

    Jose Ortega and Starr King students got the chance to participate in the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade on Feb 7, 2009. Here are some videos. Jose Ortega Elementary: Starr King Elementary:

  • Read First, Write Later

    I was reading the newsletter from the CAIS (Chinese American International School) Institute, which is the non profit that CAIS put together to support Mandarin programs around the country.  There are some interesting articles in here.  I’m especially intrigued by the “Read First, Write Later” article by the head of CAIS, Andrew W. Corcoran. It’s an interesting concept.  Basically, he’s saying that…

  • New Multilingual Master Plan

    Imagine San Francisco with a public French immersion school. A public Russian immersion school. Spanish and Chinese immersion schools in each quadrant of the City, with enough seats for all comers. Imagine every elementary school in the district offering at least 30 minutes per day of a second language to every student whose family chooses…

  • Links to the Chronicle’s series on Starr King’s Mandarin program

    Links to the Chronicle’s series on Starr King This series, written by San Francisco Chronicle Education Writer Jill Tucker, covers the first year of Mandarin Immersion at Starr King. It’s a nice picture of the school. One thing to keep in mind — Tucker only visited Starr King because Jose Ortega’s Mandarin program didn’t begin…