OCTOBER 7, 2017 From the Financial Times By Joshua Chaffin in London As a girl growing up in an English-speaking household in Singapore, Prema Gurunathan grudgingly studied Mandarin. Now a mother in west London, she is taking no chances with her own son. When he turned one Ms Gurunathan insisted their household in Hammersmith speak…

What is it with school districts and Mandarin immersion? They are thrilled to get these programs when they first launch because they pull in families from all over.  But then the programs get hugely popular- so what’s the first reaction? To shut them down, of course! (Sorry, I just get so frustrated with this. I…

Mandarin Chinese immersion school planned in Greenville Paul Hyde, phyde@greenvillenews.com Published 7:54 a.m. ET Sept. 24, 2017 (Photo: BART BOATWRIGHT/Staff) Looking to the future, Jennifer Kirchner worries about what the competitive global economy has in store for her 3-year-old daughter Eleanor. One thing is almost certain: It’s not going to be easy in the coming decades.…

Parents in the Mandarin immersion program in the Naselle-Grays River Valley School District just north of Portland Oregon, on the Washington coast, launched the Rising Star group in 2015 to support their program.  I firmly believe that as busy parents we should never be reinventing the wheel, so other programs might want to take a…

The state of Mandarin Immersion in November 2017 – a midyear update Mandarin immersion programs in the United States continue to expand, with at least two new programs scheduled to launch in the fall of 2018 for the 2018-2019 school year. As of November 2017 there were at least 246 Mandarin immersion programs in 31 states…

Two things to know about this. First, this San Francisco mom probably isn’t aware that back in 2006, the San Francisco Unified School District specifically created the Mandarin immersion program at Starr King and Jose Ortega elementary schools to bring in a more diverse student body. The schools had primarily African-American and Hispanic student bodies,…

Fulton schools hope to profit from teaching Mandarin By Will Robinson   STEVE SCHAEFER Kailey Gillespie identifies shapes with the help of an iPad during her Mandarin immersion math and science class at Oakley Elementary School. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC Posted: 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Oakley Elementary School does not just…