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  A new Intergenerational school and an immersion school in Mandarin and Spanish planned for Cleveland Nancy Szilagyi, a teacher at the Near West Intergenerational School, gives students Madeline Schmidt, 6, left, and Farrah Albritton, 8, some feedback on the stories they wrote and advice on how they might be improved. Lynn Ischay, The Plain…

A nice example of a Mandarin parent group helping get the word out about their program. This group is in Orange County, Calif.

Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School HOUSTON DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOLS & ASIA SOCIETY by Bernadette Verzosa On a rainy winter evening, the end of a bustling school day, some parents gathered at Kim Harrington’s cozy cottage in West University Place. They were members of the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at the Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion…

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Here’s one family’s story.

  Our friends at Parents of African Americans Students Studying Chinese (PAASSC) have these great posters for sale. Check their newsletter out here. Here’s their website. They go on sale Feb. 24.

February 11, 2014 3:19 pm  •  By Jamar Younger   Mesquite Elementary School will host an information session for its Mandarin Chinese immersion program. The session will take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the school, 9455 E. Rita Road. The program is open to all interested parents who have a child in kindergarten or first grade, even…

A wonderful video of kids who speak lots of languages proudly telling the world they speak English and another language–and they’re American! It was made after a flap over the multilingual Coke ad that aired during the SuperBowl, which featured kids singing America the Beautiful in multiple languages. This video was made by Stephanie Meade,…