美国一个贫困县大力推广汉语教学

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VOA Chinese, Sept 11, 2012.
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 120911/1505964.html

Note: The report is summarized from

Adam Ragusea, Some Ga Schools Make Mandarin Mandatory. NPR, Sept 8, 2012
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/08/16 ... ls-require-mandarin
("Bibb County's Haitian-born superintendent Romain Dallemand [mandates] Mandarin Chinese for every student, pre-K through 12th grade. * * * Bibb high schools will continue to offer Spanish and French on top of Mandarin, but for most of the elementary kids, it's Chinese or nothing")

Note:
(a) Macon, Georgia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon,_Georgia
(county seat of Bibb County; This [city name] was in honor of the North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon, because many of the early settlers hailed from North Carolina)
(b)
(i) Times Topic: Chiang Kai-shek. New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/re ... _kaishek/index.html
("Madame Chiang was born Soong May-ling in March 1897, the third daughter and fourth child of Charles Soong and Ni Kwei-tseng. The day on the lunar calendar corresponds to March 5, but since she celebrated on dates varying from March 6 to March 20, it is hard to specify the exact day. She was born in Shanghai into one of the very few Chinese families that believed in the education of women. Both of her older sisters attended college in the United States, and May-ling followed them at the age of 10, first to Macon, Ga., then on her own to WellesleyCollege in Massachusetts")
(ii) Connie Gee, Madame Chiang--Macon School Girl; Miamian remembers Southern classmate. The Miami News, Nov 6, 1958
http://news.google.com/newspaper ... AAAIBAJ&pg=1156,1994991
(c) Bibb County, Georgia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibb_County,_Georgia
(The county was named for Dr William Wyatt Bibb [1781-1820; served as governor of the Alabama Territory from August 1817 to Dec 1819, and as governor of the state of Alabama from Dec. 1819 to his death on July 10, 1820], a physician from Elbert County who went on to serve in the United States Senate and House of Representatives before becoming the first elected Governor of Alabama)