Children of immigrants who can speak, read and write in both English and the language spoken at home have an advantage in the labor market, a new report released Tuesday finds. The report by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and the Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit testing organization, shows that individuals with immigrant backgrounds who only speak English and…

Openings in SFUSD’s Mandarin Immersion Program San Francisco Unified School District’s Mandarin Immersion program is a unique opportunity for students to not only learn Mandarin, but learn in Mandarin.  SFUSD’s Mandarin Immersion program launched in 2006 with two kindergarten classes at Starr King Elementary School, and a year later, a third kindergarten class was added at Jose…

A nice essay by a Mandarin-speaking parent (with a great blog!) on the issues around choosing between Traditional and Simplified characters. For most people it’s a moot point because you basically go with whatever your local Mandarin immersion school teaches and that’s the end of it, At this point, about 75% teach simplified, the rest Traditional.…

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…