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Google Alerts on "global education"
PLU classes meet on all continents
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma, WA, USA (1/9/2006)
... It's a novel claim, but no mere stunt. Instead, it's the latest
evidence of PLU's growing ambition to become a national leader in global
education. ...
Global
Education Database Homepage
This is a queryable database of education statistics from UNESCO and
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). It is managed by the United States
Agency for International Development. (12/11/2005)
Google Alerts on "international education"
CED Urges Increased Investment in International Education and Foreign
Language Studies
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA 2/10/2006
Business-led Group Warns of Economic and National Security Implications
of US Language Gap WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/
Rice, Education Secretary to open International Education Summit
Webindia123 - India 12/28/2005
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Margaret
Spellings are slated to co-host the US University Presidents Summit on
International Education. ... The summit will focus on how to attract
foreign students and scholars to study in the United States, as well as
how to encourage more U S students to study in other countries,
according to the announcement. ...
Students in US see Asia in different light
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China 12/22/2005
US students risk falling behind peers in other nations in their
preparation for new jobs because critical skills required to compete in
the global marketplace have not yet been adopted in most American
schools, warned a new study by Asia Society and Goldman Sachs
Foundation. ...
Trip to China gives educator new perspective on future
The News Journal - Wilmington, DE, USA 9/25/2005
Schools need to add a more global focus.
Google Alerts on "language immersion"
New idea:Immerse entire school
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA 2/23/2006
... Its principal is expected tonight to outline for KPS trustees a
proposal to make a Spanish-language immersion program part of the main
focus at the North ...
Immersed in Foreign Language Options
Washington Post - United States 2/16/2006
By Jay Mathews. In response to your column, "Getting the Lowdown on
Foreign Language Immersion" [Fairfax Extra, Feb. 2], you could ...
Getting the Lowdown on Foreign Language Immersion
Washington Post - United States 2/2/2006
By Jay Mathews. We are interested in getting our child into two-way
immersion kindergarten or, if we don't make it into a kindergarten
...
Language school fixes on extending its range
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA 2/2/2006
The largest of Portland's four private language-immersion schools plans
to add parking and classrooms, staff and students to its 16-acre campus
near Northwest ...
Dave Poyer: Learn Chinese now. Don't ask me how.
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA 2/2/2006
Despite a half-year of language immersion, practice, semi-disciplined
self-study and even private tutoring, I am still blown away by
Mandarin's challenges. ...
Students get double dip of languages
OregonLive.com - Portland, OR, USA 1/26/2006
... at Echo Shaw Elementary School have learned Spanish and English in
this way since kindergarten as part of the school's two-way
language-immersion program. ...
Bilingual beginning
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma, WA,USA 1/26/2006
Daffodil Elementary in Sumner offers dual language immersion.
SF school to teach Mandarin
San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco, CA, USA 12/11/2005
Although two elementary schools within the district already have Chinese
language immersion programs, both of those programs are predominately
focused on the ...
Immersion emerges as top tool
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States 12/9/2005
... At Collinswood, English- and Spanish-speaking students learn
together in both languages, a technique called dual-language immersion.
...
Google Alerts on "Chinese language"
Chinese Heritage School fills key language gap
Brunswick Sentinel - North Brunswick,NJ,USA 2/24/2006
... Students at the school, which holds classes on Saturdays, mostly
study Chinese language and culture. Most were born in this country ...
Ministry initiates certification for teaching Chinese
Taipei Times - Taiwan 2/10/2006
... A representative surnamed Lin from the Center of Chinese Language
and Culture Studies at the university said that their teachers were
selected after undergoing ...
President Bush Unveils Proposed Budget
AACRAO Transcript - Washington,DC,USA 2/10/2006
... outlined, the budget notes: $1.265 million for new youth speaker
program; $1.7 million to expand the Department's Arabic and Chinese
language services; $3.2 ...
Chinese, y'all: Mandarin language becomes the new Spanish
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA, USA 1/28/2006
... The Chicago public school system, for instance, has developed over
the past six years the country's largest Chinese language program
designed to teach Mandarin ...