XinXing Academy is a Chinese immersion program in Hopkins, Minnesota. It opened at Eisenhower Elementary School in 2007. XinXing (新星) means New Star in Chinese. The XinXing Chinese immersion program is part of Eisenhower Elementary School and is K-6. XinXing students move on to Chinese immersion course offerings for grades 7-12 at Hopkins West Junior…

From: The Advocate Dec. 23, 2019 BR FLAIM — short for Baton Rouge Foreign Language Academic Immersion Magnet — started with only French and Spanish. But the popular magnet school added Mandarin Chinese in fall 2013 with an initial class of just 12 kindergartners. Six years later, that class shrank to eight fifth graders. Theresa Porter, director of…

By Ann Meyer ameyer@savannahnow.com Sep 14, 2019 In Miss Xuechen Liu’s kindergarten classroom at Haven Elementary in Savannah, the children practice their numbers in Chinese by singing a song. They introduce themselves to one another with the help of a fuzzy lion puppet. In first grade, they count by twos in Chinese and recite the numbers to…

Established last September, Luma Association Amis-language immersion preschool in Hualien teaches Aboriginal children traditional skills in their mother tongue in a bid to preserve their culture By Han Cheung / Staff reporter With most of his village preferring to converse in Mandarin, opportunities are scant for 81-year-old Kacaw to use his mother language of Amis.…

For many years, there were three kinds of immersion schools — public, charter and private. Add parochial to that list. There are now at least 19 language immersion Catholic schools in the United States, and a network for them has been created at Boston College’s Roche Center for Catholic Education. The Two-Way Immersion Network for…

On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued a sweeping order that temporarily suspended new work visas and barred tens of thousands of foreign workers from employment in the United States. The order blocked visas for skilled workers entering the United States under H-1B visas. It will be in place at least until the end of…

Just over 40% of California’s students speak a language other than English at home. You can think of that two ways — 41% of the state’s students need to learn English. Or, 59% of the state’s students need to get cracking to learn a second language. As Gregg Roberts, of the American Councils for International…