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  • Batesville, Indiana Mandarin immersion program brings out Procter & Gamble, other companies in support

        DEBBIE BLANK THE HERALD-TRIBUNE Apr 14, 2018 The line was out of the gym doors for the first Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Family and Community Night April 12 at Batesville Primary School. The event was planned by the parents of students enrolled in the program, now in kindergarten and first grade. Janie Linkel-Owens,…

  • Illinois district cuts Mandarin, but immersion programs thrive nearby

    Note that District 214 only offers regular language classes (i.e. an hour a day, teaching the language, not in the language) rather than immersion. In nearby Barrington, the immersion program has a waiting list. District 214 schools move to end Mandarin language program, bucking national trend Karen Ann Cullotta May 25, 2018 John Hersey High…

  • Northwest Chinese Academy near Portland, Ore. moves to new home

      The Northwest Chinese Academy is a K – 8 private Mandarin immersion school that until this year has been located in Beaverton, Ore. just outside of Portland, Ore. Beginning next year it will move to a new, expanded campus in nearby Aloha, Ore. Founded in 2008, the school’s move will allow it to double…

  • Cool video about dual-language programs in Georgia

    A really nice video from Gwinnett County in Georgia about its dual language immersion programs (and thanks to Gregg Roberts of Utah for bringing it to my attention.) The languages taught there are Spanish and French, no Mandarin (yet.) But it gives a nice feel of how it works. And in fact, it might help…

  • Scenes from Indiana’s Mandarin immersion school

    Chinese bond unites families DEBBIE BLANK THE HERALD-TRIBUNE Apr 14, 2018 Debbie Blank | The Herald-TribuneStudents amused their families by singing “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” in Mandarin Chinese. Debbie Blank | The Herald-TribuneBecky Niese (left) and Janie Linkel-Owens organized the Mandarin Dual Language Immersion Family and Community Night with multiple other mothers. Linkel-Owens welcomed…

  • Have you ever wondered what it would be like to send your child to school in China?

    At some point in the school saga of every parent with a child in Mandarin immersion, the stray thought goes through their brain; “I wonder what it would be like to have my kid in school in China? Could they hack it? Would it be all that different from what things are like in our…

  • Baton Rouge Mandarin teachers were paid as subs, parent effort got them raises

    Chinese language teachers at Baton Rouge school get pay raise after parents advocate cause From: The Advocate Chaoqing “Mary” Wang never made more than $10,800 a year – barely minimum wage – during her two years working as a first-grade teacher at a popular foreign language immersion school in Baton Rouge. The original Mandarin Chinese…