This is a fascinating trend. I presume the high school is not overcrowded, and presumably this brings in money, as well as adding an interesting cultural experience for the high school students.  I keep saying there’s an opportunity for someone to create an immersion boarding school for English and Chinese-speaking students in the U.S., though I’m not…

Uploaded: Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 7:44 am Survey: Differing visions for world-language programs Palo Alto students, parents and teachers weigh in on immersion versus traditional language instruction by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly • Read Entrepreneurial mom pairs Mandarin tutors with immersion students • Read Palo Alto students, teachers give mixed opinions on foreign-language education As the Palo Alto…

Uploaded: Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 7:44 am Entrepreneurial mom pairs Mandarin tutors with immersion students Palo Altan finds business opportunity in daughters’ educational needs by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly Layla Al-Khafaji, 6, listens to PandaTree Mandarin tutor Hannuo Wu lead a game during a lesson via Skype at her Palo Alto home on July…

Chinese American International School To Debut New Middle School At Turk & Gough Did you know that the nation’s first Mandarin immersion school is located in Hayes Valley? Meet the Chinese American International School (CAIS), a private school for pre-K through 8th grades where classes are taught in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. CAIS opened on…

By Elizabeth Weise TAIPEI, Taiwan – Private schools are a rarity in Taiwan, and the number of schools that offer both English and Mandarin immersion in this island nation can be counted on one hand. I had the pleasure of touring one of the most academically rigorous of them this spring as a guest of…

From their site: The Broadway Mandarin Immersion program is a thriving LAUSD public school program. Because of its success, this program needs more room to grow. Rather than finding a way to support the thriving program by providing it with necessary space, on May 26, 2015 Superintendent Cortines made the unilateral decision to halt construction…

Here’s an example of a program that can work for Mandarin immersion students who finish the program in middle school but then face the prospect of no appropriate-level Mandarin classes for them at the high school level. This one was created with the help of Yalan King at The Mandarin Institute in San Francisco.