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  • Milwaukee’s excellent immersion programs face severe budget cuts

    Let’s invest in immersion schoolsBy Alex Runner Feb. 20, 2012 |(4) COMMENTS People talk a lot about China. It seems as though its economy has been steadily gaining steam longer than Justin Bieber has been alive. But here’s something else that is increasing significantly in China: widespread interest in the French language and culture. “Chinese students’ interest…

  • Idaho’s only public Mandarin immersion school doing well

    Chinese spoken at Meridian elementary school By CYNTHIA SEWELL — cmsewell@idahostatesman.com Posted: 12:00am on Feb 21, 2012; Modified: 9:22am on Feb 21, 2012 First-grader Keirstan Knutson, 6, a student at Gateway Elementary, uses an interactive smart board to show a math equation she hears in Chinese. DARIN OSWALD / IDAHO STATESMAN Related Links LinkWatch a video of…

  • Mandarin and other immersion popular in Calgary

    CALGARY — Six-year-old Adam Liu patiently practises his Chinese characters every day — after all, there are thousands to learn. And he’s already speaking Mandarin better than his father. It’s a family reality that’s expected to become even more entrenched when Adam’s little sister, Laura, starts kindergarten next year in the same Mandarin-bilingual program at…

  • Learning Mandarin via pop music

    From Judy Shei, author of the awesome 1st grade Mandarin YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YHwAQnbcQ&feature=youtu.be   Someone asked me for some easy Mandarin pop songs to learn…  I asked my 24 year old cousin & her buddies for a few (thanks Facebook!) and below are some suggestions….  All are subtitled in traditional Chinese, my apologies.  I…

  • Starr King Elementary in the Chinese New Years Parade in San Francisco

  • Upper class immigrants choosing public schools in New York City

    N.Y. / REGION   | February 15, 2012 Affluent, Born Abroad and Choosing New York’s Public Schools  By KIRK SEMPLE Affluent foreign-born parents in New York City are sending their children to public schools in much greater proportion than native-born parents with the same incomes. please read more here.

  • Parents may have to chip in to keep immersion in Lake Oswego, Ore.

    Lake Oswego School Board members proposed and approved a bridge scenario for offering a first grade Spanish immersion class next year. The board is supportive of long-term development of an immersion program but did not commit to a K-5 program quite yet. Instead, it put a number of conditions on the potential expansion to first…