Oil City News June 10, 2023 By RHONDA SCHULTE CASPER, Wyo. — Chinese ethnic groups, traditional games and food were the focus of a school-year-end Culture Day celebration among CY Middle School students. Culture Day on Thursday, June 8, honored nine years that the CY eighth graders in the Natrona County School District Mandarin Chinese…

Daily Hampshire Gazette By MERCEDES LINGLE 6/1/2023 HADLEY, Mass. — There are few graduations like the one that takes place at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, where the student speakers kick off their talks in Mandarin. It’s fitting, of course, as they’ve been immersed in the language for which their school is named…

Please see a lovely photo spread here from the Mandarin immersion program at Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper, Wyoming.

The Los Angeles Times BY JEONG PARK, ANH DO MAY 5, 2023 5 AM PT In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the written Chinese for the phrases onto a whiteboard. “Taiwan”…

Every once in a while a new school pops up on my radar and I think, wait, what? Wasn’t there another school in that same location? Then I check my list and realize there was. I’m grateful to the Silicon Valley International School for having such a nice history section on its website to make…

District Superintendent says students in the program “underperform expectations both academically and behaviorally.” The Daily News, Feb. 25, 2023 By Cory Smith GREENVILLE — A second-language curriculum that has been utilized to teach students how to read and speak Mandarin for more than a decade at Greenville Public Schools is now scheduled to be phased…

Lafayette Daily Advertiser, Lousiana By William Taylor Potter April 6, 2023 About a dozen students from Corporal Michael Middlebrook Elementary School wowed attendees at Wednesday’s Lafayette Parish School Board meeting when they recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Why was their recitation so awe-inspiring? They did it in Mandarin Chinese. The students were part of the…