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  • New Mandarin immersion parents group on Facebook

    Mandarin Immersion Parents Support is a Facebook group for current and incoming parents of Mandarin Immersion (MI) programs throughout the United States. The group provides a forum for parents to share information and find support relating to Mandarin Immersion programs, Chinese language study, and dual language education. By having a national group, we hope to draw on…

  • A trip to China changed a state’s education system

    From China Daily:   A trip to China changed a state’s education Updated: 2014-06-27 11:37 By Qidong Zhang in San Francisco (China Daily USA) It all began with a trip to China in 2006. As a result, today 13,000 students in the state of Utah in grades K-12 speak Mandarin, the highest ratio in the…

  • Menlo Park, Calif. Mandarin immersion charter meeting Aug. 24

    Parents in Menlo Park, Calif. are starting to look at the charter process, after they were turned down by the school district when they asked for a program to be started. I was at the meeting, which was packed. The school board said they didn’t have the time or the energy to start such a project in…

  • What’s the latest research on immersion? Utah Conference Oct. 15, 2014

    The University of Utah’s Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) and the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) are excited to host the Fifth International Conference on Dual Language/Immersion Education, to be held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 15-18, 2014. The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, administrators and policy…

  • Updated map of all Mandarin immersion programs in the U.S.

    Nathan Yeung has updated his map and it’s way cool. Please check out his site.

  • Palo Alto parents ask for middle school component of Mandarin immersion program

    Parents urge board to consider middle school Mandarin immersion program Group hopes to bridge gap between Ohlone program and high school courses by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly Then first-grader Kira Sterling reads a book in Mandarin at Ohlone Elementary School in 2009. Photo by Shawn Fender/Palo Alto Online. A group of six Palo Alto…

  • Six new Mandarin immersion programs opening in Utah

    Bringing the state’s Mandarin immersion programs up to 33, as well as 14 French immersion, 2 German, 6 Portuguese and 63 Spanish. They don’t do anything by halves in Utah. I’ve updated the full school list to include these, as well as Frontiers Academy, a new private Mandarin immersion school opening this fall in Anaheim, Calif.…