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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Lee, Jaekyung; Park, Daekwon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
This study examines key school reform policies and outcomes of the USA and Korea over the past three decades from comparative perspectives. Since the two nations' unique educational problems brought divergent educational reform paths--standardization versus differentiation, high-stakes testing versus individualized assessment, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Mathematics Achievement
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Kim, Kyung-Min; Park, Daekwon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
This paper investigates both supply (the number of employees in the PT industry and the number of PT institutions) and demand (the number of middle and high school students, grade 7-12). Panel data are used for this research, making it possible to analyze market growth over time since it contains both cross-sectional and time-series information.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Tutoring, Supply and Demand, Middle School Students
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Kim, Ji-Ha; Park, Daekwon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
This study investigated the determinants of the demand for private tutoring (PT) in South Korea, especially focusing on the effectiveness of governmental regulations regarding the operating hours of cram schools in decreasing expenditure on PT. Survey data from 3,605 parents of 12th grade students were collected from 45 proportionally stratified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Private Education, Educational Demand