April 14, 2013 Texas Opens Second Chinese Immersion Elementary School in Austin this Fall of 2013 By Lelan Miller Austin Independent School District in the state capital of Texas is opening its first ever Chinese immersion elementary school this fall of 2013. Doss Elementary School will be the first Austin elementary school and the second…

An update from the story below, posted on April 5. LA Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy sent an email to parents at the school on April 9 saying that the Mandarin immersion program will get three Kindergarten classes next year. That’s one down from this year, when they began with four, but one more…

An experiment in teaching a second language as part of the everyday experience in the classroom has blossomed into a growing program in the Washington County School District. Since its inception a few years ago at what is now Dixie Sun Elementary, dual immersion has gone from a controversial topic to a popular program with…

There’s a San Francisco Bay area  Mandarin-speaking mom named Vickie Tsui who was frustrated enough at the lack of good bilingual books that she sat down and wrote one herself. She’s also got great tips about raising bilingual kids when you speak Mandarin but the world around you doesn’t. Check out her blog (and her…

中国在怀俄明州 Natrona County school board OKs dual-language immersion in one school  By ELYSIA CONNER Star-Tribune staff writer (7) Comments Dual-language immersion could start in 2014 A program to teach students for half a day in a second language is still on the table, but it would start a year later than proposed in recent…Read more Casper…

Anthony Pollreisz, K2 Radio The Natrona County School District will go forward with an optional dual-language immersion pilot program slated to be implemented next school year. The amended curriculum approved Monday night would utilize two class sections of 22 kindergarten students at Paradise Valley Elementary School. In the pilot program, participating kindergartners would spend half…

[April 9 update: Wyoming will be getting its first Mandarin immersion program in 2013-2014, at Paradise Valley Elementary School.] As educators from across the nation meet in Boston at the National Chinese Language Conference this weekend it seemed a good time to look at the current landscape of Mandarin immersion schools in the United States.…