It’s becoming easier to find Mandarin immersion preschools in many cities where there are Mandarin immersion school-age programs. But many parents wonder how well they work and what they should be looking for when touring preschools. Thankfully, our friends over at the Chinese Early Language and Immersion Network (CELIN) at the Asia Society convened a…

This is from last year, but as St. Michael’s Catholic Academy is one of only four religious Mandarin immersion programs I know of, it’s interesting to see what they’re up to. As part of their celebration of Catholic Schools Week, students at St. Michael’s Catholic Academy in Flushing observed the Chinese New Year with a…

By: Leah Pezzetti May 28, 2021 LAKESIDE, Calif. (KGTV) – A couple dozen of the seniors getting ready to graduate from El Capitan High School in June are not only wrapping up their high school careers, but a lifetime of unique cultural and language studies. The Grossmont Union High School District partners with Lakeside Union School…

The short answer is, we don’t really know all the way out to high school. I haven’t seen any national studies looking at how students do when they reach the end of high school. Anecdotally, motivated students in districts with strong programs seem to do well, but how do students do overall? It’s the perfect…

Avenues: The World School, which includes Mandarin and Spanish immersion strands, is opening a California outpost in San Jose. The for-profit school network has schools in New York, São Paulo, Brazil and Shenzhen, China. The San Jose school had planned to open this year but due to COVID-19 will be opening next year instead. It’s…

Language Immersion Elementary School Fostering Young Global Ambassadors By Taylor Bruck Cleveland March 16, 2021 CLEVELAND — Some native English-speaking children in northeast Ohio have the unique experience of attending school where all their work is in another language, and they absolutely love it.  What You Need To Know According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in the…

I’ve updated my list of Mandarin immersion schools in the United States. We’re now up to 343 schools that are either open now or will open by fall of next year. You can click this link to see the full list. Here are school changes on the list, which I last updated in July: October…