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…

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…