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Beyond the 3 Rs: Building international bridges From: The Pioneer Press February 8, 2025 Schools place priority on making global connections Editor’s Note: This continues a series about the reinvention of local public schools in the 21st century. The stories focus on how technology, globalism and government intervention have changed School District 112 and Minnetonka…
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Atlanta International School (AIS)’s upcoming recruiting trip to China is just one of the institution’s efforts to extend its multilingual, culturally diverse academic experience to families at home and abroad. AIS’s student body is a blend of about half expatriate families and half locals living in the Atlanta area. But in 2025, thanks to the school’s new boarding program on…
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January 29 is the lunar New Year and a happy Year of the Snake or Year of the Serpent to all those born under that sign. Although we might have bad associations with snakes, in the Chinese zodiac they are linked to wisdom, charm, elegance, and transformation and people born in the Year of the…
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From: The Pioneer Press June 2024 Brouke Brookins couldn’t understand a word his teacher was saying on his first day of kindergarten at Jie Ming Mandarin Immersion Academy. “We were sitting on the carpet in a circle, all of us, and the teacher walked over and just started speaking another language,” he said. “I remember…
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The Bilingual Global Citizens Public Charter School will open in September of 2025. Note that there’s also a Washington D.C.-based Global Citizens Public Charter School, which offers Mandarin and Spanish, which opened in 2023. Despite tough standards and barriers, Baltimore County is approved for its second charter school WYPR Baltimore, April 2024 Baltimore County residents…
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The programs being cut include the Language Flagship program in Mandarin at these schools: University of Oregon Brigham Young University in Utah San Francisco State University University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa University of Washington, Seattle Note that these schools are still offering Chinese and still have Chinese majors, they’re just not getting the additional support…
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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…
