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  • More on Illinois’ first Mandarin immersion program

    D220 approves Chinese classes By Carolyn Rusin TribLocal reporter Yesterday at 12:56 p.m. Barrington School District 220 will offer a Mandarin Chinese immersion program for tots through teens next fall, now that the board of education has voted to accept a $1.5 million federal matching grant for the program for five years. School board members…

  • Barrington, Illinois to get Mandarin immersion program

    from the Barrington Patch Board of Education Accepts Chinese Immersion Grant On Dec. 7, the Barrington 220 Board of Education accepted a federal grant that will allow Mandarin Chinese language instruction to be taught at the elementary school level.  The new program will begin in the 2011-2012 school year. Barrington 220 School District is the…

  • New Mandarin immersion charter approved in Bay area

    And they’re looking for a principal…. YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. Now, we are searching for a founding principal. Overview New Mandarin immersion public charter school in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks an experienced and entrepreneurial leader to head an academically rigorous K-8 program that graduates students who are bilingual, biliterate and…

  • Cities looking to Asia need Mandarin immersion

    From the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia, Canada. ==== B.C. needs more Mandarin immersion classes, prof says By Graeme Wood, With A File From Janet Steffenhagen, Special To The Sun If B.C. truly wants to be a “gateway” for business with China, it will have to invest in more Chinese-language classes from kindergarten to university,…

  • Immersion 101 for Chinese – training at CARLA

  • Some nice one-way immersion readings

    Selected One-Way Language Immersion Bibliography from the Center for Advanced Research  on Language Acquisition (CARLA) CARLA is one of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign languages There’s the link to the bibliography.

  • LA’s Broadway Elementary Mandarin program going strong

    A nice story about Los Angeles’ second Mandarin immersion school, new this year, from our friends over at the Mandarin Institute (formerly the CAIS Institute.) Broadway Elementary Launches Mandarin Immersion Program Despite Challenges By Susan Wang, Principal of Broadway Elementary School With much anticipation, Broadway Elementary School (K-6) launched a Mandarin Immersion Program this fall…