Schools Welcome Chinese Teachers

The rising popularity of Chinese-language classes hasn’t gone unnoticed by independent schools.

A new initiative by the National Association of Independent Schools and the government of China is sending 20 teachers from the People’s Republic to such private schools all over the United States to teach Mandarin.

HANBAN, China’s National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, a nongovernmental organization that is supported by the Chinese government and the Chinese Embassy in Washington, contacted the NAIS earlier this year about the China Connection, a program that would provide native Chinese...