Parents in Menlo Park, Calif. are starting to look at the charter process, after they were turned down by the school district when they asked for a program to be started. I was at the meeting, which was packed. The school board said they didn’t have the time or the energy to start such a project in…

The University of Utah’s Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) and the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) are excited to host the Fifth International Conference on Dual Language/Immersion Education, to be held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 15-18, 2014. The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, administrators and policy…

Nathan Yeung has updated his map and it’s way cool. Please check out his site.

Parents urge board to consider middle school Mandarin immersion program Group hopes to bridge gap between Ohlone program and high school courses by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly Then first-grader Kira Sterling reads a book in Mandarin at Ohlone Elementary School in 2009. Photo by Shawn Fender/Palo Alto Online. A group of six Palo Alto…

Bringing the state’s Mandarin immersion programs up to 33, as well as 14 French immersion, 2 German, 6 Portuguese and 63 Spanish. They don’t do anything by halves in Utah. I’ve updated the full school list to include these, as well as Frontiers Academy, a new private Mandarin immersion school opening this fall in Anaheim, Calif.…

Yay! The next set of Utah’s Step-by-Step readers is out. As we all know, reading more is key to increasing vocabulary and language ability. And these are one of the few series specifically created for kids in immersion. And what’s so great is that these are linked to the types of topics that U.S. students in elementary…

Check out their video and web page for the Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Yup’ik immersion school in the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel, Alaska.