Sept. 13, 2022 By Jillian Atelsek AP In the spacious basement of her Urbana home, Li Zhou commanded rapt attention from the preschoolers sprawled on the carpet before her. She read to them from a picture book about kindness. The book was written in English, but before turning each page, Zhou would speak to the…

Pasadena’s Mandarin immersion program launched in 2010 at Eugene Field Elementary. By the In the 2019 -2020 school year, it served students from Kindergarten through fifth grade with 484 students enrolled. The district also offers Spanish and French immersion. And because Pasadena has a significant Armenian community, it has recently added Armenian immersion.  Pasadena Unified…

If your kids start bringing home drawings of lanterns, talking about the Goddess of the Moon or describing lotus seed cakes in class, then you know it’s time for the Mid-Autumn Festival. For folks who didn’t grow up in families that celebrated what’s also known as the Moon Festival, here’s a little background. The holiday…

While most American parents probably wouldn’t want to send their kids to boarding school in Malaysia, it’s interesting to see what’s popular with parents on the other side of the globe. Epsom International School is a “British-inspired” boarding school in Malaysia, founded in 2014 by a Malaysian businessman who had been educated at Epsom College…

Mandarin immersion program opens at Hidden Trails Elementary By Josh Thompson, The China Champion August 27, 2022 Forty-eight kindergarten students and their families attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday afternoon for the Chino Valley Unified School District’s first Mandarin Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program at Hidden Trails Elementary School in Chino Hills.  “This is the first…

Verona Area School District Infusing culture into education: Mandarin language program at high school aims to grow while igniting passion for China Neal Patten, Staff reporter Published on Aug 6, 2022 From: The Verona Press For programming to be successful in a community, it requires some marketing and advertising. That is just as true for school…

According to the website The Hill: A 2020 Council on Foreign Relations report notes that at the State Department, “language-designated positions overseas are 15 percent vacant, and 24 percent of those staffed are filled by officers who do not meet the minimum language requirement.” The Defense Department has over 30,000 language positions, many of which it cannot fill. This …