Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
recent posts
- Fewer than 2,000 Americans are studying in China today
- Utah education board wins immunity in Mandarin immersion curriculum dispute
- Got kids in Mandarin immersion? These researchers would love to interview you
- A $52,000 private Mandarin immersion school opens as San Francisco Unified’s waitlists grow
- Once again, a district sets out to destroy a Mandarin immersion program
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Author: Elizabeth Weise
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January 29 is the lunar New Year and a happy Year of the Snake or Year of the Serpent to all those born under that sign. Although we might have bad associations with snakes, in the Chinese zodiac they are linked to wisdom, charm, elegance, and transformation and people born in the Year of the…
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From: The Pioneer Press June 2024 Brouke Brookins couldn’t understand a word his teacher was saying on his first day of kindergarten at Jie Ming Mandarin Immersion Academy. “We were sitting on the carpet in a circle, all of us, and the teacher walked over and just started speaking another language,” he said. “I remember…
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The Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School will open in September of 2025. Note that there’s also a Washington D.C.-based Global Citizens Public Charter School, which offers Mandarin and Spanish, which opened in 2023. Despite tough standards and barriers, Baltimore County is approved for its second charter school WYPR Baltimore, April 2024 Baltimore County residents…
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The programs being cut include the Language Flagship program in Mandarin at these schools: Note that these schools are still offering Chinese and still have Chinese majors, they’re just not getting the additional support they had from the flagship program. That leaves eight Mandarin Flagship programs open at these schools: Defense Department Cuts 13 of…
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I don’t write much about international schools on this blog as it’s focused on U.S. K-12 schools. That said, there is a section for international schools on my list of Mandarin immersion schools here. I heard from an old friend from San Francisco recently about a surprising shift in Hong Kong, though, and thought I…
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KAWC | By Howard Fischer, May 30, 2024 Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — State schools chief Tom Horne has been ordered to pay more than $120,000 in legal fees over his unsuccessful bid to quash dual-language instruction in Arizona schools. The new order comes more than two months after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper…
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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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