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  • Cities looking to Asia need Mandarin immersion

    From the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia, Canada. ==== B.C. needs more Mandarin immersion classes, prof says By Graeme Wood, With A File From Janet Steffenhagen, Special To The Sun If B.C. truly wants to be a “gateway” for business with China, it will have to invest in more Chinese-language classes from kindergarten to university,…

  • Immersion 101 for Chinese – training at CARLA

  • Some nice one-way immersion readings

    Selected One-Way Language Immersion Bibliography from the Center for Advanced Research  on Language Acquisition (CARLA) CARLA is one of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign languages There’s the link to the bibliography.

  • LA’s Broadway Elementary Mandarin program going strong

    A nice story about Los Angeles’ second Mandarin immersion school, new this year, from our friends over at the Mandarin Institute (formerly the CAIS Institute.) Broadway Elementary Launches Mandarin Immersion Program Despite Challenges By Susan Wang, Principal of Broadway Elementary School With much anticipation, Broadway Elementary School (K-6) launched a Mandarin Immersion Program this fall…

  • Troubles at NYC Mandarin immersion school

    At English-Mandarin Public School, High Test Scores, but Also Strife Todd Heisler/The New York Times The Shuang Wen Academy on the Lower East Side received straight A’s on its city report card this year, but parents are in conflict. By SHARON OTTERMAN Published: November 1, 2010 When it opened in 1998, the Shuang Wen Academy…

  • Beijing summer camp

    A parent passed along this camp info in China. Does anyone have any experience with it? The MIPC always gets lots of inquiries about summer camps in China but thus far we haven’t heard much from parents with actual experience sending their kids. If you’ve had a child at this or any other camp in…

  • Boston may get Mandarin immersion charter

    A Chinese immersion school may become a first in Boston by Joanne Wong on October 22, 2010 Language immersion programs have become increasingly popular in cities and towns across the country.  If approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), the Boston Chinese Immersion Charter School (BCICS) will launch in the Fall…