Most folks in the U.S. don’t know that Edmonton, Alberta on the great Canadian prairie, has an enormous immersion program. The school district offers French, Mandarin, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish and American Sign Language. For Mandarin, the program is offered at six elementary schools, four middle schools and three high schools. Not only that, but they…

The Utah Mandarin Immersion Parents Council site appears to be down, so here are some better links for the RAND study that looked at students who “won” the lottery in Portland Public Schools and got into immersion programs compared with those who applied but didn’t get in. Here’s a presentation by Portland Public Schools about the…

Provo’s first set of Chinese immersion students entering high school Braley Dodson Daily Herald Adamells Banya answers a math problem by placing his fingers above his head during a Chinese immersion class at Wasatch Elementary School in Provo on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. SAMMY JO HESTER. Daily Herald   By the time they graduate from…

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From Quartz. Despite the tenor of this article, one of the things I love about Mandarin immersion is that 83% of Mandarin immersion programs are in public schools, making it an educational option available to all. Beth == Teach your kids Mandarin the Jared and Ivanka way, for $75,000 and up a year When Ivanka Trump’s…

Thanks for the folks at the Utah Mandarin Immersion Parents Council for posting about this exciting research. You can read their post, with a link to the actual research (which you have to pay for, sadly) here.