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Video: Growing Chinese Language Program and Its Future in the United States

Watch a short video on Asia Society’s growing Chinese-language programs and impact they have on children in the United States. 

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Via beyondvictoriana & deafmuslimpunx: An Indian woman, a Japanese woman, and a Syrian woman, all training to be doctors at Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia, 1880s. (Image courtesy Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine Archives, Philadelphia, PA. Image #p0103) (x)

Via beyondvictoriana & deafmuslimpunx:

An Indian woman, a Japanese woman, and a Syrian woman, all training to be doctors at Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia, 1880s. (Image courtesy Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine Archives, Philadelphia, PA. Image #p0103) (x)

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Docent, Sesh Bala, teaches Longfellow Elementary students about Roger Shimomura @AsiaSocietyTX. #art #artists #history #education #nofilter For more photos, follow us on Instagram.

Docent, Sesh Bala, teaches Longfellow Elementary students about Roger Shimomura @AsiaSocietyTX. #art #artists #history #education #nofilter

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Gary Locke Advises Students: To Get a Job in 21st Century, Learn Chinese Before speaking at Asia Society this week, U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke sat down with students from Asia Society’s International Studies School’s Network to discuss what the future holds for them in an ever-globalizing world. Read the full story here.

Gary Locke Advises Students: To Get a Job in 21st Century, Learn Chinese

Before speaking at Asia Society this week, U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke sat down with students from Asia Society’s International Studies School’s Network to discuss what the future holds for them in an ever-globalizing world.

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In Washington, it is clear that policy-makers have committed fully to Asia. In both political parties, they are not deciding “whether” to engage Asia, but rather defining “how.

In 2013, Washington’s Asian ‘Rebalance’ Needs to Start at Home

U.S. leaders must educate the public about the assumptions on which they are already working — that engagement in Asia is both crucial and irreversible, writes Asia Society’s Matt Stumpf.

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We Asked Our Experts: What Does Obama’s Re-Election Mean for Asia? How is a second term for the Obama administration likely to affect relations with China, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan — to name just some of the Asian nations that have featured most prominently in recent headlines? Click to read commentary from Asia Society experts. Read full story here.

We Asked Our Experts: What Does Obama’s Re-Election Mean for Asia?

How is a second term for the Obama administration likely to affect relations with China, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan — to name just some of the Asian nations that have featured most prominently in recent headlines? Click to read commentary from Asia Society experts.

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Bill Gates: Who’s Beating the US in Education, and What We Do About It A look at how other nations beat out American schools and some advice from Bill Gates. Read the full story here.

Bill Gates: Who’s Beating the US in Education, and What We Do About It

A look at how other nations beat out American schools and some advice from Bill Gates.

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Video: There’s a School on a Solar Panel-Powered Boat in Bangladesh? Yep!

Filmmaker Glenn Baker hopes to re-frame American views of the South Asian region through Easy Like Water, a documentary about a Bangladeshi architect’s quest to bring education to flooded areas of his homeland.

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Will the Next ‘Education President’ Please Stand Up? What was missing from the Presidential debate, and has been absent from political discourse in general, this election season? Read full article here.

Will the Next ‘Education President’ Please Stand Up?

What was missing from the Presidential debate, and has been absent from political discourse in general, this election season?

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Watch: New Video Highlights Chinese Female Mosques and Imams

“Last Call to Prayer,” a new video from Asia Society’s ChinaFile, explores the world of female-run mosques and woman imams in China’s Hui Muslim population.

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