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…

World Language Immersion Program Expands for 2015-16 School Year Date Posted: Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 Categories:  Department of Education News Office of Governor Markell Next fall, more than 2,300 kindergarten through third grade students will be enrolled in Governor Jack Markell’s World Language Expansion Initiative, as six more schools across the state begin offering students the opportunity to participate…

David Sarasohn: King School’s Chinese immersion program (OPINION) By David Sarasohn For The Oregonian May 29, 2015 at 2:54 PM By David Sarasohn First graders, having recently escaped from Sesame Street, spend a lot of time working on shapes and colors. So last week in inner Northeast Portland’s King School, 10 first graders were working,…

Bilingual classes in Hong Kong public schools suit Chinese and non-Chinese alike Two public schools have stepped up to the challenge of providing cost-effective options for bilingual learning PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 January, 2015, 6:15am UPDATED : Monday, 26 January, 2015, 6:15am Michele Koh Morollo life@scmp.com Non-Chinese speaking students at HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No 3…

At the beginning of May, the California State Board of Education approved, with a landslide vote, the Wei Yu International Charter School. Wei Yu will be the first Mandarin immersion charter school in Santa Clara County, and it is scheduled to open for the 2016-17 school year. The journey to approve Wei Yu took the…