{"id":64,"date":"2005-10-15T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/15\/chinese-becoming-a-more-mainstream-sec"},"modified":"2005-10-15T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T19:00:27","slug":"chinese-becoming-a-more-mainstream-secondary-language-in-us-k-12-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/15\/chinese-becoming-a-more-mainstream-secondary-language-in-us-k-12-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese becoming a more mainstream secondary language in U.S. K-12 Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a567'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/15\/national\/15chinese.html?8hpib\"><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:gxYX1IGvvp0J:http:\/\/www.neon-signs.com\/neon-shop\/390-chinese-food-border.jpg\"><br \/>\n <\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n There&#8217;s an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n on Chinese becoming more popular in K-12 schools.  It&#8217;s interesting that<br \/>\n China has given some funding for Chinese teaching materials, scholarships<br \/>\n for Chinese teachers, and on the curriculums.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n The article cites a lack fo qualified teachers to teach and many schools<br \/>\n have waiting lists to add Chinese to their curriculum.  I wonder what red<br \/>\n tape one has to jump through to add such a program.  I wish I could<br \/>\n have taken Chinese in the earlier grades but it was such an &#8216;exotic&#8217; language<br \/>\n that finding Chinese language instruction was only at the Chinese language<br \/>\n schools which were targeted to the ethnic Chinese in the U.S.\n <\/p>\n<p> I guess for Chinese speakers in the U.S. this is a career<br \/>\n opportunity waiting for them if they don&#8217;t want to follow the traditional<br \/>\n routes of doctor, engineer, professor, or business yuppy.<br \/>\n Although frankly, even with the China boom it won&#8217;t outtake Spanish for<br \/>\n a long time.  And if they are able to start getting certified teachers<br \/>\n trained out in a decent clip, will there become an eventual flood of<br \/>\n too much talent?  I hope not.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/15\/national\/15chinese.html?8hpib\"><br \/>\n Read it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article in the New York Times on Chinese becoming more popular in K-12 schools. It&#8217;s interesting that China has given some funding for Chinese teaching materials, scholarships for Chinese teachers, and on the curriculums. The article cites a lack fo qualified teachers to teach and many schools have waiting lists to add Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}