Tens of Thousands of US Students Learn Chinese Language and Culture Through the College Board's Chinese Guest Teacher Program

The College Board collaborates with China’s Hanban Confucius Institute on the Chinese Guest Teacher Program to place experienced language teachers from China with host schools around the United States for up to three years. The deadline for U.S. schools to apply for the 2011-2012 cycle is February 15, 2011. Since 2007 the program has placed more than 450 teachers in American elementary, middle, and high schools to help them affordably develop Chinese language programs and promote international understanding between the U.S. and China. The College Board has also organized other initiatives that encourage the study of Chinese language and culture, including the Advanced Placement Chinese Course and Exam and the fourth-annual National Chinese Language Conference (co-hosted with the Asia Society and the Mandarin Institute), which will take place in San Francisco on April 14-16.

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