At first glance, this sixth-grade classroom at Newhart Middle School looks normal with its clustered desks, hand-drawn posters and teacher standing at the front of the classroom. A closer look and ...

Students in two kindergarten classes at Starr King Elementary are the first in San Francisco's public schools to learn Mandarin, the national language of China. School district officials hope it will ...

RICHMOND — Next school year, the West Contra Costa Unified School District will offer for the first-time a Mandarin language dual immersion program to its students. The district’s Board of Education ...

Findings from a new Stanford Graduate School of Education study on the benefits of Ohlone Elementary School’s Mandarin immersion program might just convince any naysayers of expanding the program in ...

Two Santa Clara County schools are marking milestones this month – the middle school graduation of the first class of Mandarin immersion students in Cupertino, and the painful birth late Tuesday of a ...

Maryknoll teacher Meiyi Shade, left, plays a word game with Ryder Nievera, Reese Malefyt and Graysen Gier during a Mandarin class. Since introducing the program, it has seen a steady stream of ...

Kristina Klausen was looking for a way that her two daughters could get extra practice conversing in Mandarin outside of Ohlone Elementary School’s Mandarin immersion program, in which they were ...

During the first week of school, a group of kindergartners at Adobe Bluffs School started the morning, as so many of the youngest students do, singing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” This class, ...

Duval County Public Schools' first Chinese immersion program is scheduled to open this fall at an existing charter school that focuses on foreign languages. Global Outreach Charter School, a K-8 ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Looking to the future, Jennifer Kirchner worries about what the competitive global economy has in store for her 3-year-old daughter Eleanor. One thing is almost certain: It’s ...