Cambridge, MA—October 5, 2010: The Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. School (located at 100 Putnam Avenue) is announcing the
projected expansion of its Ni Hao (Hello!) Mandarin Chinese program to
include a dual-language immersion component. Funding from the U.S.
Department of Education’s Foreign Language Assistance Program Grant will
provide resources over the next five years to create and implement a
dual-language immersion Mandarin Chinese program. In dual-language
immersion education, students receive their daily instruction through
English and Chinese. Students will maximize their learning potential by
becoming proficient speakers, readers and writers of Chinese and English
while realizing their academic potential in all of their academic
subjects. Our partners in developing this program are the China Center
of the Confucius Institute, Applied Linguistics Department at UMass
Boston, and Learning Innovations at WestEd in Woburn, MA.
If approved by the School Committee, the dual-language Chinese
immersion program will begin at the junior/senior levels of kindergarten
in 2011–2012. During the current school year (2010–2011), community,
parents, guardians, and school staff are invited to explore and plan
with the Project Director, Gerald Yung, principal of the Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. School.
There will be an Information Night at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
School on Monday, October 25, 2010 at 6:30PM. To contact Mr. Yung,
please call 617.349.6562 x150 or email [email protected].