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  • Kansas school district parents argue for immersion program

    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…

  • Nation’s oldest Mandarin immersion school moves, adds middle school language pathway

    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…

  • Private Mandarin immersion schools flourish in San Francisco

    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…

  • 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…