From Fox News 13 SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — After a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon on Friday left four people dead and dozens injured, Chinese immersion students from around the state are helping out in the healing process. Anywhere from 500 to 600 students at different schools around Utah are making cards in their…

From The Del Mar Times Del Mar Schools to consider foreign language program By Karen Billing The Del Mar Union School District is exploring adding foreign language to its curriculum. A parent survey is expected to go out in March to determine if there is an interest in a language program, what that language of…

This is one of a series of videos that the Asia Society’s Center for Global Education Chinese Learning Initiatives does. You can read about the series here. Here’s the video for teachers “intended to serve as a window into the classroom.” This is Ms. Li’s second grade class in Waxhaw, North Carolina. The lesson theme…

Ontario-Montclair School District says 你好 to Mandarin immersion classes Classes will be offered for kindergarteners at Montera Elementary School next year With China now one of the world’s biggest economies, the Ontario-Montclair School District is making moves to prepare its students for a future that anticipates the country’s continued influence across the globe. “There’s probably…

Fourth-grader Maddie Freeman wants to be an FBI agent when she grows up. “I like how detectives work crimes, and I see a lot of news stories that say the FBI and CIA are looking for people who speak Chinese and other languages,” Maddie says. At just 9 years old, she’s well on her way…

The state of Hawai’i, remarkably, only has one Mandarin immersion program. It’s at Maryknoll School and launched in the 2017-2018 school year. Now a gift from a former pupil is allowing that program to expand. Maryknoll alumnus Douglas Ho presented the Catholic schools with a red Chinese envelope which has in it a check for…

This is a general article about language immersion programs in southern California, but it gives a nice overview. Some interesting tidbits: Anaheim Elementary School District has at least one language immersion class in each of its 23 campuses. Currently that’s 22 Spanish programs and one Korean. About 2% of all Los Angeles Unified School District…