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Many have made their careers in the field of education by comparing and contrasting the American education system with those around the world. Marc Tucker, of the National Center on Education and the Economy, is one of those. His book, Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems integrates a[...]
On a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gather at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol. The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying after 10 p.m. And stop them. In South Korea, it has come to this.
Private, after-hours tutoring academies (called hagwons) - south korea
Test-prep tutors. private after-school instruction, sometimes called shadow education. after-hours self-study library.
Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher-a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country's private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons.
CTXWFS-The Future of Education: Part One (Andrew Kim)
Today's Kindergarteners, should they graduate from college in four years, will be the graduating class of 2030. Is our current education system capable of preparing our children for the World in 2030? What is the real state of public education and where are we heading?
Hagwon ( Korean: 학원; also hagweon or hakwon) is the Korean-language word for a for-profit private institute, academy or cram school prevalent in South Korea.