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The students performed the songs “Jasmine Flower” (茉莉花) and “Songs & Smiles” (歌声与微笑) The school’s Mandarin immersion program launched in the 2014-2015 school year. From: SHARON O’MALLEYSeptember 29, 2026 Streetcar Suburbs Publishing Four fourth-graders from Paint Branch Elementary School in College Park helped serenade first lady Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan, the first lady of…
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Reuters Connect The U.S. state of Utah’s Chinese Dual Language Immersion Program has served nearly 12,000 students from grades 1 to 12 in 98 schools, as many local parents are showing a vision that learning Chinese will help their kids gain better opportunities in the future. Implementation of the program started in Utah in 2009,…
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The program at Glenwood Elementary will be disbanded and students moved to their neighborhood schools for the next school year. Earlier this month the school board had voted to move the Mandarin program to a different school. The superintendent said the program “would reduce the district’s flexibility to adjust school boundaries.” The program is popular…
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Casper Elementary School Is Only Public School In State To Offer Mandarin In Dual Language Immersion Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper is the only public school in Wyoming that offers Mandarin Chinese in a dual-language immersion setting where students spend half the day learning that language and the other half in English. Dale Killingbeck…
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Glenwood Elementary School students will move to different schools next August following a school board vote Thursday to split the school’s Mandarin language program. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board’s 5-2 vote moves the Mandarin dual-language track to Rashkis Elementary, displacing roughly 85 students at that school. Please read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article316925805.html#storylink=cpy More on the story…
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A question I have, perhaps someone can answer this – do bilingual teachers receive more pay than monolingual ones? In San Francisco, they don’t. Buying a Mandarin curriculum certainly costs money, and having a specific dean for it is an extra salary expense. But how does it cost $1.2 million extra to run the program?…
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I’ve decided I’m going to start pulling an Onion, and use the same headline every time a district sets out to mess with a thriving Mandarin immersion program. In this instance, we’re in North Carolina, where a survey found that 41% of families “said they were likely to leave the district if its dual language…
