If your kids start bringing home drawings of lanterns, talking about the Goddess of the Moon or describing lotus seed cakes in class, then you know it’s time for the Mid-Autumn Festival. For folks who didn’t grow up in families that celebrated what’s also known as the Moon Festival, here’s a little background. The holiday…

While most American parents probably wouldn’t want to send their kids to boarding school in Malaysia, it’s interesting to see what’s popular with parents on the other side of the globe. Epsom International School is a “British-inspired” boarding school in Malaysia, founded in 2014 by a Malaysian businessman who had been educated at Epsom College…

Mandarin immersion program opens at Hidden Trails Elementary By Josh Thompson, The China Champion August 27, 2022 Forty-eight kindergarten students and their families attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday afternoon for the Chino Valley Unified School District’s first Mandarin Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program at Hidden Trails Elementary School in Chino Hills.  “This is the first…

Verona Area School District Infusing culture into education: Mandarin language program at high school aims to grow while igniting passion for China Neal Patten, Staff reporter Published on Aug 6, 2022 From: The Verona Press For programming to be successful in a community, it requires some marketing and advertising. That is just as true for school…

According to the website The Hill: A 2020 Council on Foreign Relations report notes that at the State Department, “language-designated positions overseas are 15 percent vacant, and 24 percent of those staffed are filled by officers who do not meet the minimum language requirement.” The Defense Department has over 30,000 language positions, many of which it cannot fill. This …

By DR. BRIAN McDONALD, PUSD Superintendent   JUNE 2, 2022 Pasadena Unified is getting ready to say farewell in multiple languages to the founding class of students who began the Dual Language Immersion Program in kindergarten. The program, started in the 2009-2010 school year has enabled students to master academic subjects in both English and a target…

The Park Record Letter to the Editor: May 1, 2022 From a student in the district Utah is the leader in Dual Language Immersion (DLI) and secondary language learning programs in the United States. Utah currently offers DLI and secondary language programs in the public school system in six different languages. Park City School District…