If US won't pay its teachers, China's tiger moms will

Company matches underpaid teachers in US with Chinese parents willing to pay

Cindy Mi leans forward on a couch in her sun-filled Beijing office to explain how she first got interested in education. She loved English so much as a child that she spent her lunch money on books and magazines to practice.

By 15, she was good enough that she began to tutor other students. At 17, she dropped out of high school to start a language-instruction company with her uncle.