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TitleHong Kong Reconsiders Monolingual Secondary Education
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In 1997, the government of Hong Kong decided to stop teaching most of its secondary school classes in English in an attempt to eliminate code-mixing, or switching back and forth between Chinese and English. However, the impact on Hong Kong's English proficiency and the rift between English- and Chinese-speaking schools are just beginning to be seen. Read the Chicago Tribune article at:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-0505120044may12,1,1983342.story?coll=chi-education-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
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