A Whole Site Modernization project is underway for Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School at 2445 Fogg St. The school offers a Mandarin Chinese immersion program giving students from K-5 instruction in core academics in both English and Mandarin Chinese. The cost of Whole Site Modernization is projected to exceed $15 million with an anticipated construction…

Remaining monolingual is a surefire way for America to fall behind BY GLENN C. ALTSCHULER AND DAVID WIPPMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS 05/15/22 8:30 In a multilingual world, the United States remains a mostly monolingual country. Even though roughly 70 million Americans speak a language other than English at home, almost 80 percent speak English only. In Europe,…

The article below says All Souls is the only Catholic elementary school in the country offering a dual-language immersion program featuring Spanish and Mandarin. That’s indeed true. There are however two other Mandarin immersion Catholic schools, St. Michael’s Catholic Acadamy in Flushing, New York and Maryknoll School in Honolulu. — Dual language immersion program brings…

O.B. Gates Elementary School in Chesterfield County, Virginia, launched its Mandarin immersion program in the fall of last year, making it the first program in the state. That brings us up to 68% of states having at least one Mandarin immersion program. These are the 16 states that still don’t have one: AlabamaArkansasConnecticutIowaKentuckyMaineMississippiMontanaNebraskaNew MexicoNorth DakotaPennsylvaniaSouth…

This coming weekend the National Chinese Language Conference will take place virtually. Hundreds of Chinese teachers and school staff will be in attendance – it’s not too late to sign up, so if you were wondering what to get your Mandarin immersion teacher as a year-end present, well, it’s one possibility beyond yet another Target…

Not only does Minnesota have some of the oldest public Mandarin immersion programs in the country, it’s also got a ton of other immersion programs. Plus the excellent Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Advocates for Immersion Network (MAIN) at http://www.mnimmersion.org. I count twelve Mandarin…

For Mandarin immersion families in the San Francisco Bay area, College Park Elementary School in the San Mateo-Foster City School District is a storied program. Founded in 2007 as a way to draw families into an under-enrolled school, the program was placed at College Park Elementary School alongside the district’s Gifted and Talented Education program.…