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Is Language Immersion Right for My Child?
Education Week
By Heather Singmaster - March 28, 2016: https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2016/03/is_language_immersion_right_for_my_child.html
My son is in kindergarten and spends half of his day learning in English and half in Chinese at one of the oldest Chinese immersion programs in the country. I didn't think twice about entering the lottery for admission—in fact, it's a large part of the reason I left New York City and moved across the country to Portland, Oregon, where 10 percent of public school students are enrolled in immersion programs.
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