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  • Arizona State University – what our kids can look forward to

    The Chinese Language Flagship Program exists at several universities and offer a place for already-fluent Mandarin speakers to go with their Chinese. At many universities, Chinese classes are for beginners and don’t get much beyond moderate/advanced. For kids coming out of immersion programs, there simply aren’t enough classes at enough depth for them. The Flagship…

  • Visa troubles slow start of South Carolina program

    From The Beauford Gazette The arrival of two instructors from China who will help launch partial immersion programs in Mandarin is being delayed as the Beaufort County School District wrangles with the state Department of Education and other agencies. The district received grants this summer to bring Chinese teachers to two international baccalaureate elementary schools…

  • Nice wiki article about Mandarin in British Columbia

    Parents in the western Canadian province of British Columbia are working full out to create Mandarin immersion programs there. They’ve got several web sites up, and a really nice wiki article up on the University of British Columbia web site  here. It’s a good model for parents in other parts of the world who want…

  • St. Cloud, Minn. program looks at middle school

    St. Cloud school district looks to expand immersion program By Dave Aeikens • daeikens@stcloudtimes.com • October 2, 2010 Sixteen third-graders in the immersion program at Madison Elementary School sang in Chinese with their teacher last week. Almost three years from now they will leave Madison for middle school, ready for the next stage of the…

  • TV story and video on Denver’s immersion school

    Charter school offers immersion in Chinese, Spanish Nelson Garcia 3 hrs ago DENVER – In the old Whiteman Elementary building, teachers are doing something never done before in the Mile High City. They’re teaching kids every subject in Mandarin. “We really felt that there was definitely a strong demand here in Denver for this kind of…

  • Berkeley Bilingual Book Fair

    Oct 30: Shu Ren Fall Festival and Bilingual Book Fair Come celebrate fall with Shu Ren International School’s Fall Festival and Book Fair! Join us for a day of fun and games to support the East Bay’s Mandarin/English dual immersion school: – Magic Show! (at 11 am) – Bouncy House and other games and prizes…

  • Wow, check out Mandarin in Edmonton, Canada

    I had no idea their program was so big, and so well-established. They have 12 schools involved, from elementary to high school. They started  in 1982, just a year after the Chinese American International School in San Francisco. I believe this makes them the oldest on-going Mandarin immersion public system in North America. From their…