NJ.com May 23, 2021 “Shēng rì kuài lè, Shēng rì kuài lè,” a chorus of about 20 elementary and middle school age students sang in Mandarin. They were lined up in the hallway of the YingHua International School on a recent weekday, holding candles. Chinese lanterns hung above as kids fidgeted around, eyeing an ice cream cake…

A Ph.D. student named Ji Ma in Language and Literacy at Georgia State University is doing a research project on how it works and is looking for teachers to interview. If your school does, perhaps you might want to forward this along to your teachers? Here’s to more research into how Mandarin immersion works best,…

KHOU May 21, 2021 Watch video here.

St. Michael’s Academy Battles Hate and Fosters Healing Through Asian Studies  June 23, 2021By Paula Katinas The Tablet WINDSOR TERRACE — At a time when attacks against Asian-Americans have risen more than 300% in New York, educators at one Queens Catholic school are using Asian-themed curricula to help students learn not to hate. Administrators in some…

This is what it looks like when the district closes your immersion program – this used to be the page on the Cave Creek Unified School District that proudly proclaimed its Mandarin immersion program. By Justin Lum May 12, 2021 FOX 10 Phoenix PHOENIX – Parents of students enrolled in a special ‘Mandarin Immersion Program’ offered by the Cave…

Natalia Alamdari Delaware News Journal June 9, 2021 After successfully reversing the district’s decision to end the Chinese immersion program at Red Clay’s Linden Hill Elementary, parents are now trying to recruit enough kindergarteners to keep the program alive. In the months since the district unexpectedly cut – and then reinstated – the program, a steering committee…

The popular public school program in Minnesota draws more open-enrolled students than any other elementary school in its district. By JOSH VERGES  Pioneer Press March 9, 2021 St. Paul Public Schools is moving forward with two costly construction projects and further delaying several others following an external review of its facilities work. District leaders on Tuesday…