Plan for ‘National Education' Stirs Protests in Hong Kong

Beijing : China | Sep 03, 2012 at 10:51 AM PDT

Source: The New York Times

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As the school year started on Monday, local government officials were taking pains to say that each high school in the city has the discretion to decide for itself how to phase in teaching the subject, before instruction in the subject becomes mandatory in 2015. FULL ARTICLE AT The New York Times

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