Thanks to Jie Ming parent Brian Lam, who emailed to tell me that the school, in addition to gettin g anew building, has also expanded from three Kindergarten classes to four. [If you’ve got a story about your Mandarin immersion school, please email me at weise (at) well (dot) com. Let’s get the word out!]…

Granted, it’s pricey. But it sounds very good. And Gregg Roberts, who oversaw immersion programs in the state of Utah, is now working with them. That, to me is, the golden seal of approval. I talked to Gregg and he agreed that it would make sense for students who take college Chinese as part of…

From: The Lake Forest Times By Cam Hedlund Nov 23, 2018   Lakes International Language Academy, the PreK-12 public charter school in Forest Lake, set out in 2004 with a mission to prepare students to become critical thinkers and global citizens. We integrated the renowned International Baccalaureate curriculum across our program from the start and…

For many of us with children in Chinese immersion programs in the San Francisco area, NanHai was our go-to bookstore for Chinese books, available in both traditional and simplified characters. Over time, catalog and then online sales made the pleasant trip down to the store less necessary. Clearly we weren’t the only ones. Sad to…

The refusal by the Riverside School Board is interesting in that it says “the plan to require students older than second grade to demonstrate grade-level proficiency in Mandarin would likely cause the school to fail the state’s requirement that a charter school match the ethnic makeup of the district where it’s located district because few…

Hudson Way is actually the only private Mandarin immersion program in New York. While there are multiple other private schools that make that claim, Hudson Way is the only one that is actually 50/50 Mandarin. === From the school: We are very excited to announce that in response to rapidly increasing enrollment we have secured…

From: The Conversation Between 2003 to 2015, multilingual students showed two to three times more progress in reading and math than students who speak English only. With this progress, the achievement gaps between multilingual students and their peers have narrowed substantially. This new analysis we conducted of results from the National Assessment of Education Progress…