Len Lipkin

More On Language Immersion

After my post last week on language immersion programs in the area, an Independence Charter parent emailed me a list of resources on the philosophy of language immersion.  This list is from the Independence Charter website. Recommended Websites Research on language acquisition Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) Parent/teacher...

Len Lipkin

Language Immersion And Philly Primary Schools

In the book, Critical Issues in Early Second Language Learning, Myriam Met collected a series of essays and studies on foreign language study in early childhood

Len Lipkin

My Dilemma

So my family has attended three open houses in the last two days.  As you would expect, there were some things that we liked and some things that we disliked about the different schools that we visited. My dilemma is how to document those impressions on this forum.  I am not a journalist seeking to write objectively, I am just a dad sharing my experiences.  What I perceive to be weaknesses of a...