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  • Portland’s newest Mandarin immersion program doing well

    David Sarasohn: King School’s Chinese immersion program (OPINION) By David Sarasohn For The Oregonian May 29, 2015 at 2:54 PM By David Sarasohn First graders, having recently escaped from Sesame Street, spend a lot of time working on shapes and colors. So last week in inner Northeast Portland’s King School, 10 first graders were working,…

  • First two public immersion schools open in Hong Kong

    Bilingual classes in Hong Kong public schools suit Chinese and non-Chinese alike Two public schools have stepped up to the challenge of providing cost-effective options for bilingual learning PUBLISHED : Monday, 26 January, 2015, 6:15am UPDATED : Monday, 26 January, 2015, 6:15am Michele Koh Morollo life@scmp.com Non-Chinese speaking students at HKTA Yuen Yuen Institute No 3…

  • San Jose to open Mandarin immersion K-8 charter in 2016

    At the beginning of May, the California State Board of Education approved, with a landslide vote, the Wei Yu International Charter School. Wei Yu will be the first Mandarin immersion charter school in Santa Clara County, and it is scheduled to open for the 2016-17 school year. The journey to approve Wei Yu took the…

  • Parents: LAUSD bowed to “bullies” in gutting Mandarin program

    Just in: ‘Game changer’ to game over for Westside ‘immersion’ school Posted on May 27, 2015 11:10 am by Craig Clough LA Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines has cancelled the district’s plans for a proposed construction project at a Westside school campus that was to house an expanded foreign language immersion program. Explaining the rationale for his decision in a three-page memo to members…

  • Meanwhile, Portland program is giving students a huge boost in college

    Boren Scholar with a talent for study abroad makes plans for China May 8, 2015 – 1:08pm When she was in kindergarten, Megan Garland did the usual things 5-year-olds do — she counted, she colored, she learned Chinese. She didn’t know it then, but China would soon fill her horizon, and no mere ocean would…

  • Los Angeles cuts wildly popular Mandarin program by half

      [I added in a tidbit at the end: LAUSD has had a 20% decline in enrollment in the past 8 years and is looking to better market itself…] The Los Angeles Unified School District has decided to cut the highly successful Mandarin immersion program at Broadway Elementary from four classes of incoming Kindergartners to two, thus…

  • Slightly off topic: The advantages of identifying as biracial

    With so many biracial kids in Mandarin immersion programs, I thought this might be of interest. My own kids, who are Chinese and Irish-German-English, are pretty fluid and calm about the whole thing, which I in part attribute to their having grown up in classrooms where being biracial is almost the norm. from New York Magazine:…