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Chang-Bacon, Chris K. – Educational Policy, 2022
With U.S. classrooms increasingly characterized by linguistic diversity, policies mandating teacher training around English learning have proliferated. Recent federal oversight prompted Massachusetts to implement an initiative to endorse its 70,000+ teachers in Sheltered English Immersion (SEI). While policy research has productively emphasized…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Educational Policy, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Wang, Kathleen – Learning Languages, 2009
This article describes the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School (PVCICS), a regional public charter school in western Massachusetts, which opened in 2007 and the only Chinese immersion school in New England. The school draws students from over twenty-five towns and cities in a predominantly rural area of Massachusetts that includes the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Activities, Immersion Programs, Rural Areas