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  • A fascinating story of having your kids go to school in China

    Peter Hessler’s book River Town came out in 2001. About his years in the late 1990s as a Peace Corps volunteer there, it’s a brilliant portrait of China as it emerged from isolation and was beginning an era of rapid change. He later reported from China and has written several books since, all worth reading.…

  • The Magic of Bilingual Education

    Seven educators and one former student on how learning another language can change lives The Washington Post My favorite memory as a bilingual teacher Bilingual education for me has been a validation of my language, culture and identity that I did not receive as a child of public education. I grew up in a time…

  • Slightly off topic – Major research university in China removes English requirement

    I have no doubt this decision is more about politics than anything else, which is far beyond the scope of this blog. But it’s interesting that some of the arguments being made for and against English in China are the same ones we see being made about immersion education here in the United States: Yu…

  • Georgia charter school offers Korean, Mandarin immersion

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, By H.M. Cauley, June 3, 2023 Je Yeong Yu, 52, still has vivid memories of moving to the U.S. with her Korean parents and being tossed into a first-grade classroom of where everyone, except she, spoke English. “There were no ESL programs then,” said Yu, referring to English as a Second Language…

  • Hawaii’s only Mandarin immersion program reaches 6th grade

    Honolulu’s Maryknoll School is one of three Catholic Mandarin immersion programs in the nation. Maryknoll’s Mandarin immersion program enters its sixth year Maryknoll School is preparing to introduce its incoming sixth graders to the next stage of its Man­darin immersion program, in which 80% of their classes will be taught in Mandarin. The program is…

  • Mandarin Immersion sleepaway camp near New York

    I’ve visited HudsonWay and know the staff and program, it’s a great school and I bet their camp, which sounds like a full-on Parent Trap camp but with immersion, is cool. A little easier to get to than China or Taiwan. HudsonWay International Sleepaway Camp We welcome students ages 8-13 to experience a 2-week international sleep-away camp…

  • San Jose-area Spanish immersion school adds Mandarin enrichment

    This is an interesting model for a school with an existing immersion program. Beginning in the fall of 2023, Randall Elementary School north of San Jose added Mandarin to its school curriculum. Randall is part of the Milpitas Unified School District Randall is the only district school that offers a bilingual Immersion program. The ethnic distribution…