Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kelly Chuang, standing, teaches Mandarin to Crystal Huang at Chinese School of San Marino on April 1. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles ...

In the fall of 2006, 23 kindergartners walked into their classroom for the first time at Starr King Elementary in San Francisco where their teacher only spoke Mandarin, a language most of the children ...

DIAMOND BAR >> Walk into Jie Gao’s classroom at Pantera Elementary School in Diamond Bar and it looks much like any other kindergarten classroom — decorated with pictures of colorful geometric shapes, ...

On the day Christopher Tirone turned 12, his classmates at Candlewood Middle School in Dix Hills sang him the Happy Birthday song in Chinese. Christopher and the other sixth-graders in his class in ...

EAGLE, Colorado – A local high school is launching a Mandarin language program funded by the Chinese government, school district officials said. Battle Mountain High School joins 14 other Colorado ...

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...