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The programs being cut include the Language Flagship program in Mandarin at these schools: Note that these schools are still offering Chinese and still have Chinese majors, they’re just not getting the additional support they had from the flagship program. That leaves eight Mandarin Flagship programs open at these schools: Defense Department Cuts 13 of…
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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…
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An interesting article from western Massachusetts, where the school superintendent of the Amherst-Pelham School District is concerned that a Spanish immersion program at a district school is a school within a school which creates “a troubling level of segregation based on language proficiency” as the local newspaper put it. It’s interesting because the program they’re…
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I’ve spent the last two weeks going through the full Mandarin immersion school list and have updated and cleaned it up as much as I am able. There are still some gaps (Examples: Just when was the Baltimore International Academy East founded? Does Triad International Studies Academy in North Carolina use traditional or simplified characters?)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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