It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than others. But 11-year-old Irene Her stands in front of the classroom, ...
Nov. 30—EAU CLAIRE — Buzzing with energy and overflowing into the halls of the Eau Claire Area School District Administration Building, members of the community gathered before the Eau Claire School ...
For Choua Lor, a 2nd grade teacher at Vang Pao Elementary in Fresno, Calif., teaching is a calling. But working in the school’s Hmong dual-language immersion program is what she calls her life’s ...
Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...
“Hmong is a stateless nation,” said Bee Vang-Moua, director of the Hmong program at the University of Minnesota’s Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department. “There’s no Hmong land. We have a ...
Inside Look is a Fresno Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. In 2018, parents from southeast Fresno’s vibrant Hmong ...
When Bouasvanh Lor would come home to Merced from college at CSU Stanislaus, her parents would pretend they forgot English to force her to practice Hmong, the family’s mother tongue. Back then, she ...
Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: Books written or translated into Hmong are relatively rare. It's estimated there are no more than 1,000 different book titles in Hmong. A new ...