Study: Portland Immersion Students Become Better Readers, English Speakers by Rob Manning OPB | Nov. 6, 2015 12:59 p.m. | Updated: Nov. 6, 2015 4:10 p.m. | Portland Students in Portland’s language immersion programs become better readers than their counterparts in other schools, according to a new study called “Study of Dual-Language Immersion in the Portland Public Schools.”The RAND Corporation…

PARENTS SOUND OFF ABOUT HISD BOND BUDGET SHORTFALL Voters passed the nearly $2 billion bond, but now the district says they’ll need millions of dollars more to build what they promised and parents aren’t happy about it. By Kaitlin McCulley Tuesday, October 27, 2015 06:35PM HOUSTON (KTRK) — The team of experts Houston ISD assembled in…

Note: A better translation of what the student says (加油!) would be “Give it the gas!” 18,000 Central Texas children learn in dual-language classrooms Posted: 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015 Email 2Facebook 203Twitter 5ShareThis 264 By Julie Chang – American-Statesman Staff About 20 first-grade students at Northwest Austin’s Doss Elementary School cheered their classmate in Chinese on Monday as he tried…

The great folks at CELIN, the Chinese Early Language and Immersion Network, have created a searchable listing of Mandarin immersion programs based on my spreadsheet and I wanted to make sure parents and programs were aware of this resource. CELIN is a project of The Asia Society and they’ve got a super helpful website. Their Directory of…

I realize this isn’t Mandarin, but as Mandarin programs are so new we don’t have a lot of long-term data. Spanish is more built out so we have a better sense of how it works. And it does work. -Beth === Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 7:30 am Spanish immersion program marks 20th year Two decades…

BATESVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION RECEIVES GRANT FOR NEW DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION PILOT PROGRAM Posted on: October 7th, 2015  by Batesville Schools BCSC is first ever Indiana public school district to offer students classroom immersion program in Mandarin Batesville Community School Corporation has been awarded just over $87,000 in grant funds to create a new dual language immersion pilot…

VAIL – Students at Mesquite Elementary in the Vail School District are not just learning a new language, they’re being immersed in it. Every day, these K-2 children are being taught Mandarin, and learning about Chinese culture. “You can hear them count from one to a hundred in Chinese, without even a pause,” said Buni Becker,…