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…

School board considers potential K-8 models Staff highlights dual language immersion, IB program at hour-long workshop by Erika Alvero / The Pleasanton Weekly The Pleasanton school board started talking over possible kindergarten through eighth grade (K-8) pathways to be implemented on the north side of the city during a workshop last week that sparked much…

I have no opinions on Falun Gong myself (so please don’t email about it!). I post this only because every year many Mandarin immersion programs get sent fancy, full-color brochures about the Shen Yun Performing Arts troupe if it’s presenting anywhere near them. The group performs Chinese classical dance, though the final piece is often…

Most Mandarin programs have a special ceremony for the day when students receive their Chinese names. It’s very sweet and something of a tradition in many schools, marking when you really enter into Chinese culture. And of course kids who already have Chinese names are also included in the ceremony. From: The Sonoran News CCUSD…