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Mandarin immersion schools are popping up everywhere. Next year we know of new ones opening in the cities below. Are they all happening? Any others we don’t know about? Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) Cambridge, Mass. Alameda, Calif. Lake Forest, Ill. Barrington, Ill. Boston, Mass. (possible.) Burlingame, Calif (possible)

High interest in Mandarin classes in Vancouver (UPDATED)   By Janet Steffenhagen 16 Feb 2011 COMMENTS(5) Report Card Vancouver’s new Mandarin bilingual program has attracted almost twice as many students as it can accommodate. The program received 112 applications for 68 spaces – 22 in kindergarten, 22 in a K-1 split and 24 in Grade…

Dear parents and immersion advocates, I wanted to make sure you are aware that the school district in Burlingame, CA is actively considering implementing a Mandarin immersion program. The district recently started a Spanish immersion program that is thriving. This is the time to speak up in support of a new program. Some information is…

District shaping plans for former Burlingame school, targeting November bond to renovate it By Neil Gonzales ngonzales@bayareanewsgroup.com Posted: 02/10/2011 06:07:35 PM PST Updated: 02/10/2011 10:16:15 PM PST   The Burlingame Elementary School District has narrowed down options for the recently reacquired former Hoover School and is targeting a potential construction-bond measure for November to fund the site’s…

Are their wait pools for Mandarin immersion programs across the country? In San Francisco we’re usually able to get most families who sign up in, though they often have to wait until the actual start of school, which is pretty harrowing. Down the peninsula, the Mandarin programs are routinely full, I’m told. What happens in…

A report from the 2010 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Conference, by the helpful folks at the Mandarin Center. This year’s ACTFL conference had a record attendance of 7,200 participants.  Only six years ago Chinese was not heavily represented, but this year Chinese presentations accounted for close to 20% of the…

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce that the application for the Intensive Summer Language Institutes has been posted online. This program provides fully funded fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic and Chinese in Egypt and Mainland China. The Intensive Summer Language Institutes are…