I grew up in San Jose, where there were sizable Chinese and Taiwanese populations, and as kids, many of us took piano lessons or learned how to play other Western instruments. But I didn’t know ...

Migrant workers in a tiny rural village in eastern China wanted to make sure that when they left to find work in faraway cities, the kids ... typical Chinese school offers. In between classes ...

His parents paid nearly $1,000 for 26 classes. Yet it’s hard to tell if the online courses improve the English skills of Chinese kids. It could be tough for companies to monitor the quality of ...

Wan Changru’s eldest daughter is unusual among Chinese school kids. The Beijing student does not attend extra classes in English, Chinese or math. “There is a lot of anxiety when other ...

Growing up, Melissa Quon traveled an hour on Saturdays to attend a Chinese class in San Francisco. The teaching style was stern and “old school”, she said: “you say it, you repeat it, you ...