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Of course our friends up in Canada have a different school system to contend with (and decades of strong immersion programs in French and English to point to) but it’s still interesting for folks in the United States to look at how parents can organize to push for Mandarin immersion in their schools. === http://www.mandarinforbcschools.org/…

A nice story from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism about Mandarin in Los Angeles. —– From Chinatown to China: Learning world languages in L.A. schools Contributor By Jacquie Levy Seated in a folding chair in the middle of Chinatown’s historic West Plaza, seven-year-old Aidan Garner’s short legs dangled his little feet above…

From the Asia Society’s latest newsletter: Asia Society has identified and networked some of the strongest Chinese language programs across the country – and is bringing their best practices to you. Confucius Classrooms How to start a Chinese language program. Find online resources to build stronger programs. Get involved! Support language learning in the United…

Note that this debate is not about immersion, but about a class or two a week in elementary school.  Clearly, kids in immersion actually learn to understand and speak Mandarin quickly (reading and writing, of course, take longer).  But interesting that Mandarin’s so popular these days that schools are adding an hour a week in…

NanHai books, in California, has started a Scholastic-like program where they send a two-page catalog of Chinese books to teachers at immersion and heritage programs, and then the students order through their classroom. The latest one is all simplified character books. These are appropriate for kids up to 5th grade or so. For more information,…

Yu Ming Mandarin Immersion Charter School is targeted to open in the fall of 2011 with initial kindergarten and first grade classes. We are focused on growing the whole child physically, culturally, morally and academically. Our program is anchored on a two-way dual immersion program in which students serve as language models for each other.…

West meets East at Oakbrook Published: Thursday, September 23, 2010 Oakbrook Elementary first-graders Mikayla Petroske and Miranda Smith practice math in Chinese with the help of teacher Yanbo Chen. View and purchase photos By DEBRA KASZUBSKI Recess, songs, snack, stories and … Chinese? That’s the case at Oakbrook Elementary School in Sterling Heights where kindergarten…