Agence France-Presse March 16, 2013 00:45 Chinese teaching growing in US, helped by Beijing Susan Wang couldn’t speak English when she arrived in California from Taiwan, aged 16. Now 49, she heads a school offering US children a similar experience, plunging them into a Chinese world. And her establishment is part of a rapid expansion…

Here’s the family’s blog. Not only is our 10 year old daughter the only American at her new Mandarin school but also the youngest, smallest, and only Caucasian at this five star high school with 1000 students! Last week was her first day. This is the Mandarin-speaking introduction that she prepared for her class and…

Bamboo Shoots is a private Mandarin immersion preschool in Westfield, NJ which is expanding into an elementary school beginning next year, 2013-2014. ======= 欢迎您，朋友。, or “welcome friends” as many of us are more accustomed to, is the warm greeting students receive each morning at Bamboo Shoots. In fact, this independent, full Mandarin immersion, day school…

Parents in Utah have started the Utah Mandarin Immersion Parents Council to support teachers, families and students across the entire state’s Mandarin immersion program, the nation’s largest. They’ve got a nice blog going, be sure to check it out. Families in other school district have also started groups, there’s a Fremont Mandarin Immersion Parents Council…

From Education Week Foreign Language Policies Around the World By Anthony Jackson on March 2, 2013 6:28 AM On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, we have been looking at the importance of languages in schools. Today, Heather Singmaster, senior program associate, Asia Society, looks at how other countries are examining their language policies…

[From the Palo Alto Weekly] A champion for charter schools As head of county education board, Palo Altan Grace Mah backs charter school growth Six years after rocking the Palo Alto education scene with a threat to petition for a charter school here, Grace Mah finds herself in the vanguard of a major charter-school drive…