[lg policy] Beijing Government Helps American Students Learn Chinese

[Harold Schiffman]

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Voice of America



Beijing Government Helps American Students Learn Chinese



As communities across the United States face declining revenues and
shrinking budgets, local school officials are laying off teachers,
increasing classroom sizes and eliminating classes in a wide variety
of subjects. But in the northwestern state of Oregon, lawmakers are
hoping to add a new subject to the school curriculum - Mandarin
Chinese. And they're looking to the Beijing government as a source of
funding for Chinese language education.



Full story:

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/education/Beijing-Government-Helps-American-Students-Learn-Chinese--83336702.html


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