There is a written interview with me online at EdNews titled "An Interview with David Porter: On Teaching Chinese and Mandarin in Our Schools." This is a brief sample:
As I told our Oregon Senate committee: "consider now what a foreign economic market twice or three times the size of the US market just across the Pacific Ocean from Oregon would mean. Consider what economic opportunities, and challenges, it would present. And consider what challenges it would present to our national security and to the peace and stability of the international system. Without thinking these considerations through now, neither you nor the general public can understand the priority, the scale, and the urgency of the changes we need to make in our educational system today. Our next generations will live in a very different economic and geopolitical world. A five year old starting in a Mandarin immersion program this year will be only 37 in 2040 and only 47 in 2050. Please think what skills they will need to survive and thrive."
Dave--
Tom watkins
Go to College Board and see application to take teachers to china.
Also, I have a two part series in the Oakland Press -- taking a look at China-- 30 years of looking in the rearview mirror.
Tom
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