St. Paul looks to boost unpopular schools to turn enrollment tide By JOSH VERGES | jverges@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press August 5, 2017 at 7:00 am Mired in a cycle of enrollment losses and budget cuts, St. Paul Public Schools leaders are eager to play offense in the arena of school choice. The district’s share of…

LOS ANGELES, July 10 (Xinhua) — The 135-year-old Castelar Elementary School in downtown Los Angeles, California in west U.S., never stops its efforts of academic diversification. With a Mandarin language immersion program in full wing for six years for K-5, the school rides the trend again, as U.S. learners of Chinese language are becoming younger.…

For those of us who don’t actually speak a second language natively, immersion is the closest you can get.  From The New York Times By PERRI KLASS, M.D. True bilingualism is a relatively rare and a beautiful thing, and by “true,” I mean speaking two languages with the proficiency of a native — something most…

It’s not often that you get to see the full scope of a program laid out for all to see, the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s impressive that Pasadena has produced this report that gives a full overview of how things in its Mandarin immersion program are going, what is working well and…

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…