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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…
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A fascinating article. Back in 2015, there were more than 20,000 Americans studying in China. Today it’s less than a tenth that. Whatever the future brings, the U.S. and China need to better understand each other, and you can’t get the level of understanding necessary by watching a few movies on Netflix. It takes making…
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This is pretty in the weeds, but of interest to a lot of teachers and administrators. Utah education board wins immunity in curriculum dispute By George Basharis, J.D. A curriculum vendor’s copyright and business interference claims failed after a federal court determined that Utah’s education board is entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity as an arm…
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Note that the referral for this research came through Dr. Shuhan Wang, who for many years ran the Mandarin immersion research group at the Asia Society. So they’re quite reputable. About the Research: We are a research team led by Professor Chun Chen-Cheng from the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language at…
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San Francisco Chronicle By Jill Tucker July 4, 2026 In the race to attract more families to San Francisco’s public schools, district officials are in the process of opening a Mandarin immersion school next year, starting with just under 90 transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students. If the district manages to open just over a year from now, it will…
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Chinese immersion program is renamed after parent pushback The parents are correct – immersion programs are at least 50% in the target language through fifth grade, generally shifting to around 30% in middle school and one (or in exceptional cases, two) classes per day in high school. Cambridge no longer has a true Mandarin immersion…
Mandarin Immersion Parents Council 