We are parents of a student who is enrolled in the Scenic Park Elementary Chinese Immersion program. We are highly disappointed to hear that immersion programs are being considered for discontinuation ...

School next year will look dramatically different for students in Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary’s Mandarin Chinese immersion program after the Lafayette Parish School Board voted to end the ...

Fort Bend ISD is launching two new language-learning programs, a Two-Way Dual Language Spanish-English Program and a Mandarin ...

Roughly 23 years ago, the Hawaiian immersion school came into existence on the Paia School campus. We, the parents who were brave enough to enroll our children in the school, along with the children ...

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) plans to replace the Italian Immersion Program with a standard world language class. The authors, children of the program’s founder, advocate for preserving the full ...

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The Wake County Public School System has received a $14.1 million U.S. Department of Education grant that will support existing plans to increase language and global studies programs at four magnet ...

Growing up, Melissa Quon traveled an hour on Saturdays to attend a Chinese class in San Francisco. The teaching style was stern and “old school”, she said: “you say it, you repeat it, you write it.” ...

Diana Burchell receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Becky Xi Chen receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ...

The African principle of “Sankofa” translates to “it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind.” In 2015, according to the World Health Organization, Guyana, my country of origin had ...