TOLEDO, Ohio -- An Ohio researcher is tracking down hundreds of off-the-radar schools in the United States responsible for much of the country's Chinese language instruction.
An Chung Cheng of the University of Toledo received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to find every single school, often referred to as Chinese heritage schools.
Estimates show that the schools, created by Chinese parents who want to pass the language on to their children, handle more than 70 percent of Chinese language instruction before college. The schools have existed for years in the United States but are not part of the mainstream education system.
The goal is finding a way of connecting the schools to traditional classrooms at a time when interest in learning Chinese is growing.
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