Senator and sons talk same language

Family making US-Chinese connectedness a life's work

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Howard Stevenson travels across the United States giving speeches to national educators about Utah's pioneering, decade-old effort to jointly teach Chinese and English in the state's public schools.

Stephenson is a Utah state senator and a national spokesman for Chinese language immersion, and the 12,000 Utah students who take Mandarin daily can thank him for their ability to learn the most important language of the 21st century.