Durrell Laury was in line at Nordstrom with his mom when he heard a group of women behind him speaking Mandarin. The 5-year-old turned and said, "Ni hao (hello)," watching for their reaction. The ...

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 ...

Former HISD assistant principal and parent Jade Rush has helped launch a new parent-led Mandarin immersion school in ...

FREMONT — Children in Ms. Wang’s kindergarten class didn’t say “bye-bye” to their parents, who crowded just outside the classroom door Wednesday morning, snapping pictures of their little ones sitting ...

Despite a slightly nervous start to the school year last August, Duarte mom Brooke Gomez has one word for her daughter’s nine months of kindergarten: amazing. Many parents experience the anxiety of ...

Harrison Township – — Dominique Canty reaches for the yellow crayon to color a rainbow in her kindergarten class. "What did you say the word is again in Chinese for yellow?" asks the 5-year-old ...

The Lake Oswego School District will offer two half-day Kindergarten Mandarin Chinese Immersion classes in 2011-12, contingent upon hiring qualified staff and on achieving sufficient enrollment to ...

A Vancouver group that’s been pushing for a Mandarin bilingual program starting in kindergarten has won support in principle from the Vancouver board of education. Eileen Sue, chair of B.C. Parents ...

FREMONT — Children in teacher Orchid Wang’s kindergarten class didn’t say “bye-bye” to their parents, who crowded just outside the classroom door Wednesday morning, snapping photos of their little ...