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…

From: WFAE | By Ann Doss Helms Published April 13, 2022 at 5:44 AM EDT Inside a newly-renovated building in a Pineville shopping center, you’ll hear young children learning in Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and English. ILIM School, short for the International Language Immersion Montessori School, offers a new twist on a growing educational option. Language immersion means…

It’s a little off-topic, but interesting that Stanford has dropped Cantonese, spoken by 70 million people in China. It’s also closer to classical Chinese, T’ang dynasty poems that don’t rhyme in Mandarin do rhyme in Cantonese, for example. Los Angeles Times April 17, 2022 BY ANH DO STAFF WRITER  APRIL 17, 2022 5:30 AM PT Laura Ng…

Fox Carolina By Brookley Cromer Published: Mar. 22, 2022 at 4:25 PM PDT GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – Is your child interested in learning a second language? A Greenville charter school is offering something that’s rare in South Carolina and enrollment is open for next year. Speaking a second language is second nature for students at East…

LAist, by Josie Huang, June 6, 2022 Chinese and Vietnamese are, after Spanish, the most commonly spoken non-English languages in California, but they’re rarely taught in public schools because there’s not enough teachers to do the job. The state issued nearly 1,200 bilingual accreditations in the 2020-2021 school year, but only 63 were for Mandarin…

Some highlights: Delaware now offers Chinese immersion in 13 schools to 1,300 students. In the Mandarin program, students take the AP exam in 9th grade and then can take college-level Chinese classes in high school, allowing them to graduate one course short of a Chinese minor. Of the 100 students who began in the first…