Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
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Like many school districts, St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota has struggled with enrollment decline. But the addition of language immersion programs, which now include Spanish, Mandarin, French, German and Hmong, For the first time since 2018, St. Paul Public Schools’ enrollment decline was barely noticeable. The district schools that have added the most students…
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This might be of interest to teachers and program administrators. The 9th International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education will be held October 2-5, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Grand America Hotel. Inclusive of all languages, program models, and educational levels, the 2024 conference brings together researchers and practitioners from the U.S.…
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I’ve posted the full list as of February 1, 2024. We’re up to 394 schools in the United States that I’m aware of. If there are schools that aren’t on the list, please contact me. Click here to access the list page. Updates February 2024 ADDITIONS Pacific Academy Private Costa Mesa, CA K – 8…
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SALT LAKE CITY — A legislative committee is recommending no change to how Utah’s dual language immersion program is funded. During a meeting Thursday of the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee, the chairs announced they recommend retaining the roughly $7.3 million funding for the program that allows students to learn languages such as Chinese, French, German, Spanish and Russian. This…
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What’s interesting about this for Mandarin immersion parents is that the Spring Education Group, which owns more than 220 schools in 19 states, runs Stratford Schools in Los Angeles and San Francisco. One of those San Francisco schools offers a Mandarin immersion program. I had not realized Stratford was part of such a large, for-profit…
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Bochen Han in Washington South China Morning Post 27 Dec, 2023 What does Washington, DC, have in common with Provo, Utah? Or Greenville, Michigan? Or Overland Park, Kansas? All are home to publicly funded Mandarin immersion programmes, where kids as young as three years old spend half of each school day taking their regular classes –…
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K-dramas out of Korea get all the press, but there are popular ones in Chinese as well. Here’s a nice list of high school and college-age-focused dramas, all romances (are there any other kind?) To watch them it looks like one might have to get an account on Rakuten Viki, which is an Asian-focused streaming…
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