Fourteen years ago, an American professor traveled to South Korea on sabbatical and came away so impressed with that country’s math textbooks and teaching materials that she decided to have an entire ...

One of the differences between the United States and Korea is the way in which curriculum change is initiated and implemented. For example, the Korean national curriculum framework describes goals to ...

Korean elementary and middle school students ranked in the top tier in a recent international evaluation of academic achievements in mathematics and science, but they also severely lacked interest and ...

The five presentations described in this chapter focused on teacher education from preparation to professional development. The main focus, teacher collaboration, was preceded by an overview of ...