AXIS International Academy is a K-5 charter school that offers 50/50 immersion programs in Mandarin, Spanish and French. An article about their new building (partly behind a paywall) is here. Info about the school is here. The school’s enrollment seems to be climbing (figures here.) Again, it baffles me that charter schools keep opening that…

Note that this is long and pretty research-heavy, and much of it is about Spanish immersion programs. But still, some interesting thoughts on how immersion programs function compared with bilingual programs, which are focused on English-language learners so that they can learn English while retaining their home language. I will say there are counter-arguments made…

An interesting study… From a paper published in Development Science for May. Compared musical pitch perception of young US children enrolled in Mandarin-language immersion education to their peers enrolled in English-only education at the same school. Mandarin-immersion education is associated with children’s enhanced ability to discriminate musical pitch, even when differences in working memory are…

Utah has the best statewide language immersion program in the nation. The Salt Lake Tribune Parents of students in Utah’s dual language immersion programs in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish should be concerned about the Utah State Board of Education’s decision to eliminate the entire state team of DLI directors and coordinators. This…

By Tucson Local Media StaffApr 15, 2026 Updated Apr 16, 2026 Both Sunrise Drive Elementary School and Ventana Vista Elementary School have been named 2026 A+ Schools of Excellence by the Arizona Educational Foundation. The two Catalina Foothills School District schools are among 48 public schools across the state to earn the designation this year. Sunrise Drive…