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Yinghua Academy enters Q Comp |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 12:13 |
The 31st charter school to enter professional development and achievement-based pay system
Minnesota Commissioner of Education Alice Seagren announced [Dec. 7] that Yinghua Academy will implement Minnesota’s nation-leading Q Comp performance and professional pay program. The school will receive US$59,280 in total revenue for the 2009-10 school year for implementation.
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The Fifth Chinese Bridge: U.S. High School Student Chinese Speech Contest |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 12:00 |
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The Fifth Chinese Bridge: US High School Student Chinese Speech Contest gives students the opportunity to test their skills against the best high school Chinese language students in the United States. This contest, held on April 24, 2010, is open to non-heritage Mandarin speakers studying Chinese as a foreign language in an American Public or Private High School. To apply for the 5th Annual Chinese Bridge: US High School Chinese Language Speech Contest, students must submit a speech of 3-5 minutes in Chinese based on the following theme: Learning Chinese Brings Me into the World Community
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Goodbye, My Dear American Friends |
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 00:00 |
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By Manlin Yu
 How time flies. Our exchange group from Loudi [said] good bye to American friends very soon. Facing the vast grassland extending as far as the eye can see and elegantly winding road, a variety of sweet memories rush to my mind.
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Major grant enables Hopkins to develop innovative Chinese Immersion curriculum |
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 09:44 |
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Hopkins, working in collaboration with two other Minnesota school districts, received a major Foreign Language Assistance (FLAP) grant from the United States Department of Education. The five-year, US$1.4 million, FLAP grant will enable Hopkins to develop a well-articulated, kindergarten through 12th grade, Mandarin Chinese immersion program that has a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricular focus.
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Wallin Scholarship Program helps U of M students succeed |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 06:49 |
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Jiake Chen, a native of Shanghai, was among the 200 Wallin Scholarship Program scholars honored at the University of Minnesota Oct. 3. Winston Wallin, former CEO of Medtronic and graduate of South High School in Minneapolis, and his wife, Maxine Houghton Wallin, instituted the Wallin Scholarship Program at South High in 1992. The scholarship program was extended to all Minneapolis public high schools in 2000. In May 2007 the program included Anoka-Hennepin Public School students and in 2008 it expanded to St. Paul Public Schools as well as to seven high schools in the northern suburbs. That means that the program now serves students from the state's three largest school districts. |
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