Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
recent posts
- Fewer than 2,000 Americans are studying in China today
- Utah education board wins immunity in Mandarin immersion curriculum dispute
- Got kids in Mandarin immersion? These researchers would love to interview you
- A $52,000 private Mandarin immersion school opens as San Francisco Unified’s waitlists grow
- Once again, a district sets out to destroy a Mandarin immersion program
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Author: Elizabeth Weise
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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,…
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KHOU May 21, 2021 Watch video here.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Most of us with students in Mandarin immersion can’t read to our kids in Chinese, or play games with them in Chinese or do much beyond making sure they do their homework. Thankfully, a whole raft of movies are now available in Mandarin, making “Mandarin movie night” a much easier thing than it was even…
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