Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Religion & Law Blogs -> Constitutionally Correct

Religion & Law

: Constitutionally Correct

Chinese educators in America

By Alliance Alert

Chester E. Finn Jr. writing at National Review Online: "Are we in the early stages of outsourcing our education system to the same country to which we?ve surrendered our manufacturing sector and entrusted our national debt? That?s probably too dire, at least for now, but the Chinese education ministry has been extending its tentacles worldwide, from the 550 higher-ed programs ('Confucius Institutes') already operating in 90 countries (including almost 70 on American shores) to the newer but no less worrisome K?12 language programs that are taking the U.S. by storm. One of Beijing?s chief U.S. partners in this venture, the Asia Society, has already opened 20 pilot sites in American public schools and seeks to launch 80 more by fall 2011. Some districts and states ? notably North Carolina ? are working directly with the Chinese government, while still more districts are turning to their local-university-based Confucius Institutes to get started."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).