Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
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I don’t write much about international schools on this blog as it’s focused on U.S. K-12 schools. That said, there is a section for international schools on my list of Mandarin immersion schools here. I heard from an old friend from San Francisco recently about a surprising shift in Hong Kong, though, and thought I…
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KAWC | By Howard Fischer, May 30, 2024 Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — State schools chief Tom Horne has been ordered to pay more than $120,000 in legal fees over his unsuccessful bid to quash dual-language instruction in Arizona schools. The new order comes more than two months after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper…
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An interesting article from western Massachusetts, where the school superintendent of the Amherst-Pelham School District is concerned that a Spanish immersion program at a district school is a school within a school which creates “a troubling level of segregation based on language proficiency” as the local newspaper put it. It’s interesting because the program they’re…
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I’ve spent the last two weeks going through the full Mandarin immersion school list and have updated and cleaned it up as much as I am able. There are still some gaps (Examples: Just when was the Baltimore International Academy East founded? Does Triad International Studies Academy in North Carolina use traditional or simplified characters?)…
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Johnson County Post, February 2024 Shawnee Mission dual language proponents hope idea makes it into next strategic plan An organized effort to get a dual language program in the Shawnee Mission School District (Kansas) received strong support in a recent public input effort, buoying supporters’ hopes that it might make it onto the district’s long-range strategic plan…
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The Chinese American International School, founded in 1981, is the oldest Mandarin immersion school in the country and, as far as I can tell, the world. It’s long been split between multiple buildings, for preschool, grade school and middle school, to accomodate its growing student population. Until last year the grade school shared a building…
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There’s also the Stratford School in San Francisco, which is a chain that has some Mandarin immersion at some of its schools, including the one in San Francisco. That brings to five the private Mandarin immersion schools in the city (including the one opening next year) compared with just two public Mandarin immersion schools. As…
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