From: The Jefferson Star South Fork Elementary Mandarin Chinese program reaches full capacity South Fork Elementary School Principal Richard Howard said students can’t get enough of the school’s Mandarin Chinese program. Six years after its initial inception, the program — one of just 278 in America — has reached full capacity. The program is just one of…

From: Xinhua by Angela Efros SAN DIEGO, the United States, May 12 (Xinhua) — A crowd of over 1,300 fell silent as 13-year-old Kamila Carter told her story of being raised by deaf parents from two different countries and how she crosses U.S.-China barriers in the world of sounds and silence. To communicate with her…

An interesting article. The important point is this: Dr. Muñoz makes the point that children are only sponges when they get deep and meaningful exposure to the language. “You need a high frequency of input, of good quality,” she said. “You have to live with the language, use the language and function in the language.…

[The Mandarin immersion school is listed further down in the story, click to “Please read more link” to read it.] From The Houston Chronicle Fresh after getting a new principal, West University Elementary School finds itself among the top of the heap in a new list of Houston ISD schools. School rankings were announced by…

Aiken County Public Schools in South Carolina have announced not one but three new immersion elementary schools opening in the 2019-2020 school year. Clearwater Elementary in Graniteville will focus on Spanish, Millbrook Elementary in Aiken will focus on German, and Belvedere Elementary in North Augusta will focus on Mandarin. The schools will begin with Kindergarten…

What stands out to me in this article is a side note pretty far down, about what some families are willing to do to get  immersion: “The only difficulty is when students move away,” he said. “When, say, a fourth grader leaves, we can’t just put another kid in that classroom. They wouldn’t understand what…

Redwood City, Calif, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has faced declining enrollment for several years, leading to a significant funding gap within the district. This is partly due to the area losing middle and working class families as Silicon Valley real estate prices have gone through the roof and priced them out of the…