Mandarin immersion programs do many things: they teach Mandarin-speaking students English, English-speaking students Mandarin, serve as magnets to bring middle class families to high-poverty or low-test score schools and in some districts entice families to the district itself to fill empty school seats. But balancing all those needs and desires is never easy. A case…

BY GREG CHILDRESS March 02, 2018 04:45 PM CHAPEL HILL Big changes could be coming to Glenwood Elementary School under a proposal to convert it into a magnet school in time for the 2019-20 school year. The magnet conversion would mean students, both those inside the school’s attendance zone and those outside it, would have…

I spent some time last week going through all the emails and updates that have come in about various schools and input them all in to the master Mandarin immersion school list. I also spoke with several people in New York City about what schools there do and don’t offer Mandarin immersion and updated that…

A guest post by Mary Field in San Antonio, Texas.* I did a little bit of or back of the envelope math the other day, and I found that about half of my current Mandarin students speak Spanish at home with at least one parent. When I worked in Austin, I noticed a similar trend.…

It is not easy to figure out which New York City public schools offer Mandarin immersion, as it’s a big district with a lot of schools and a lot going on. Also, the district lists programs as dual-language immersion which are primarily aimed at students who come into the district speaking Mandarin and who are…

Every year the Asia Society holds its annual National Chinese Language Conference. It’s the go-to conference for Chinese teaching and has become a hotspot of Mandarin immersion information. I’ve only gotten to attend one but I learned a ton and for anyone in the field it’s truly not to be missed. This year it’s in…

Please find below a lovely essay on Chinese New Year by Jeff Bissell, the head of the Chinese American International School in San Francisco, the country’s oldest Mandarin immersion program. If you have thoughts on Chinese New Year, your school or Mandarin Immersion in general, please send them along. I am eager to run guest…