Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
Author: Elizabeth Weise
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An interesting article from western Massachusetts, where the school superintendent of the Amherst-Pelham School District is concerned that a Spanish immersion program at a district school is a school within a school which creates “a troubling level of segregation based on language proficiency” as the local newspaper put it. It’s interesting because the program they’re…
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I’ve spent the last two weeks going through the full Mandarin immersion school list and have updated and cleaned it up as much as I am able. There are still some gaps (Examples: Just when was the Baltimore International Academy East founded? Does Triad International Studies Academy in North Carolina use traditional or simplified characters?)…
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Johnson County Post, February 2024 Shawnee Mission dual language proponents hope idea makes it into next strategic plan An organized effort to get a dual language program in the Shawnee Mission School District (Kansas) received strong support in a recent public input effort, buoying supporters’ hopes that it might make it onto the district’s long-range strategic plan…
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The Chinese American International School, founded in 1981, is the oldest Mandarin immersion school in the country and, as far as I can tell, the world. It’s long been split between multiple buildings, for preschool, grade school and middle school, to accomodate its growing student population. Until last year the grade school shared a building…
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There’s also the Stratford School in San Francisco, which is a chain that has some Mandarin immersion at some of its schools, including the one in San Francisco. That brings to five the private Mandarin immersion schools in the city (including the one opening next year) compared with just two public Mandarin immersion schools. As…
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Peter Hessler’s book River Town came out in 2001. About his years in the late 1990s as a Peace Corps volunteer there, it’s a brilliant portrait of China as it emerged from isolation and was beginning an era of rapid change. He later reported from China and has written several books since, all worth reading.…
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Seven educators and one former student on how learning another language can change lives The Washington Post My favorite memory as a bilingual teacher Bilingual education for me has been a validation of my language, culture and identity that I did not receive as a child of public education. I grew up in a time…
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