Inside a brightly-lit classroom, around 20 schoolchildren are enthusiastically singing the Chinese national anthem. That song is followed by another tune in Chinese – one typically sung during the ...

On a recent morning in Overland Park, Kan., at a school next to a horse pasture in the middle of the country, a kindergartener raised his hand and asked to go to the bathroom — in Mandarin Chinese.

English classes are mandatory for a majority of Chinese students, but less than 0.5 percent of English students learn Mandarin Chinese. Marian High School says they wanted to offer the language to set ...

This file photo shows teachers and students of Rusinga School perform dragon dance during the unveiling ceremony of the Confucius Classroom at Rusinga School, which is the first of the kind founded by ...

The Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School (MCLIMS) received its authorization by a unanimous vote of the Board of Education on December 8, 2011. The school’s primary champion was Trustee ...

In response to a shifting global economy, Ghana 39;s move to include Chinese (Mandarin) in the junior high school curriculum has been applauded .

NAIROBI, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's privately owned United States International University (USIU-Africa) on Thursday launched Confucius's classroom to strengthen the teaching of the Chinese language ...

Elyse Ribbons was tired. She was staring down Chinese characters and idioms that had resisted memorization since before dawn. As the evening went on, she swallowed more and more coffee. The more ...