Chris Livaccari has been a huge proponent of Mandarin and Mandarin immersion at the Asia Society in New York and now he’ll be leading a school in a very immersion-rich area (the San Francisco Bay area.) I don’t know the school at all but will expect to see a lot of innovation coming out of…

4 new R.I. charter schools proposed for fall 2014 July 01, 2013 01:00 AM BY LINDA BORG Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE — Four new charter schools are in the pipeline, including two schools proposed by Providence school leaders, a Chinese immersion program, and a science and engineering-themed school in Newport. Each school has received preliminary…

Greenville Chinese immersion program surpasses expectations By Kelli Ameling • Last Updated 10:50 am on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Mrs. Li, who came to Greenville from China as part of the Chinese immersion program, posed with her first class that will be advancing in the program at Walnut Hills Elementary School. — Courtesy photo GREENVILLE —  The outcome of…

By Jamila Nightingale My family’s road to Chinese immersion began just days after my husband and I walked down the aisle. While we were honeymooning overseas we came across a short article on raising bilingual children. The article posed a question: Which language would you choose, Spanish or Chinese? This sparked a five-minute conversation during…

By Elizabeth Weise Germany’s first Mandarin immersion program is still struggling to get the German educational establishment to recognize Chinese as language in which academic studies can be taught. The school, which launched in the fall of 2011, has been forced to settle for offering a Chinese language class to its students three times a…

US-China summit: California welcomes rise of Asian giant   The run down Oakland waterfront has seen a $1.5bn investment from China Five-year-old Eli is perhaps the face of America’s future. He looks a little nervous going in front of his 15 fellow pupils in his kindergarten class in a San Francisco school and reading out…

Other Views: GF schools should ask for language immersion By: Grand Forks Herald, The Jamestown Sun Call up the “Directory of Foreign Language Immersion Programs,” click on Minnesota, and you’ll find a state that’s trying to make strides. From the Eagle Heights Spanish Immersion Program in Eden Prairie, Minn., to the Yinghua Academy charter school and…