Improvement of the education system and the problems of Korea
Michael Horn discusses South Korea's education system on YTN Science.
Michael Horn discusses South Korea's education system on YTN Science.
Mar 21, 2014
I met Wednesday with the founder and CEO of Teach for All Korea, Yukang Choi. Given that the teaching field already attracts some of the top […]
Mar 20, 2014
My visits to South Korean schools—five so far with a few more scheduled—are starting to help me understand the differences between the different levels of […]
Mar 18, 2014
As South Korea struggles to escape the downsides of centuries of a Confucian emphasis on rote learning while retaining the positives from that Confucian legacy, […]
Mar 17, 2014
Two weeks ago, Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr unveiled a detailed strategic plan for overhauling the county’s struggling alternative school program. The […]
Mar 14, 2014
Although there has often been a knee-jerk reaction within the Korean government to block new forms of education emerging outside mainstream, government-funded schools, not everyone who has […]
Mar 14, 2014
In my last blog post, I highlighted the value of viewing the education system as architecture of components and subsystems that fit and work together […]
Mar 13, 2014
President Obama’s college-ratings plan has evoked strong reactions—mostly criticisms and reservations from college leaders and postsecondary associations about performance-based measurements. Few seem to support the ...
Mar 12, 2014