I know we have many families formed through adoption who read this blog, so I wanted to make you aware of a wonderful and very deeply reported work about adoptees returning to China. Please see the site here. Touching Home in China A Transmedia Work in Progress What happens when American teenagers adopted from China return…

Language immersion schools flourish in D.C. By Moriah Costa  /   June 12, 2015  /   No Comments LANGUAGE IMMERSION: Demand for language immersion programs are high in D.C., as evidenced by the long wait list. By Moriah Costa | Watchdog.org WASHINGTON, D.C. —Snippets of French, Mandarin, English and Spanish can be heard throughout the classrooms and…

Los Angeles parents have launched a website to keep families up to date on news about  their hugely-popular (among parents) but beleaguered (by the district) program at Broadway Elementary School. You can check out their blog here. Here’s some of the background on this.

June 4, 2015 By Joyce Gemperlein Tyler and his mother Susan Kramer in a classroom at Ohlone Elementary School in Palo Alto, Calif. (Photo by Norbert von der Groeben) Tyler and Susan Kramer in the Palo Alto, Calif., school where he studies Mandarin. (Photo by Norbert von der Groeben ) Two studies led by Amado…

Uploaded: Thu, Jun 4, 2015, 2:41 pm Stanford study bolsters support for Mandarin immersion program Researchers suggest sustained language immersion increases reading skills, proficiency by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly Findings from a new Stanford Graduate School of Education study on the benefits of Ohlone Elementary School’s Mandarin immersion program might just convince any…

What city has the largest, most intensive Chinese immersion program in North America?

I heard a new term last night as we were at the dining room table. There was a discussion of Chinese and reading and keeping up over the summer and my middle schooler said of one of her classmate’s moms, “Oh, she’s a white tiger.” “White tiger?” I asked. “That’s a white parent who’s a…