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Seoul Education Chief Retains Position After Bribery Conviction

» by January 19th, 2012 at 5:02 pm » Comments (4)

Maybe I am just old fashioned but it seems to me that when someone in a position as important as the Seoul Education Superintendent is convicted of bribery that person ...more »

Children of US Military Servicemembers Perform Better In School Than Their Civilian Counterparts

» by December 13th, 2011 at 8:45 am » Comments (4)

Via a reader tip comes this news that schools on US military bases are outperforming their public school counterparts: The results are now public from the 2011 federal testing program known ...more »

US Marine Corps Sharply Cuts Tuition Assistance

» by October 25th, 2011 at 3:44 am » Comments (8)

This is something I can soon see hitting the other services as well, the reduction of the highly popular tuition assistance programs: Okinawa — The Marine Corps announced Tuesday it has ...more »

List of the 5 Worst National Universities In South Korea

» by September 24th, 2011 at 6:50 am » Comments (4)

So do any ROK Heads happen to teach at any of these schools? The government made public Friday the names of five national universities that fared poorly in its evaluations. They ...more »

Is the GI Bill Being Scammed By Some Colleges?

» by September 23rd, 2011 at 5:48 pm » Comments (7)

The quality of education provided by the major universities that focus on military students is something that has always concerned me in regards to whether the military is really getting ...more »

South Korean Schools Moving From Paper To Digital Media

» by July 22nd, 2011 at 9:58 am » Comments (1)

I haven't gotten into the tablet market yet because I am a big user of my Kindle which does many things a tablet can do for much cheaper a price.  ...more »

Korean Teachers Indicted For Political Activities

» by July 21st, 2011 at 10:06 pm » Comments (0)

Could you imagine what the reaction would be if for example the Bush administration in the US tried to do something like this? A total of 244 civil servants, mostly teachers, ...more »

Should Schools Be Required To Teach Gay History?

» by July 12th, 2011 at 5:35 pm » Comments (52)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="398" caption="In this photo taken Tuesday, June 28 2011, State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco is seen at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Leno's measure requiring public ...more »

ROK Drop Movie Review: Waiting for Superman

» by July 8th, 2011 at 3:03 am » Comments (71)

I saw over the weekend the popular US education documentary Waiting for Superman that attempts to show what a mess the US education system is: The fact that this recent teacher ...more »

South Korean Teenagers Rank US As Nation’s Third Greatest Enemy

» by June 27th, 2011 at 3:16 am » Comments (33)

Their biggest enemy is of course not the nation that kidnaps ROK citizens, shoots ROK citizens in the back, sinks ROK naval ships, or even launches a artillery barrage against a civilian city: Many teenagers think ...more »

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