Education in Korea

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/information/education.cfm

Current System (1990s)
" Most Koreans spend their entire high school life preparing for the all important college entrance examination. After classes, most children attend foreign language classes or other private classes to try to get an edge over their classmates. Some parents even get private tutors for their children as early as primary school, even though this practice was illegal for years.
The Korean government has been trying to improve the education system by stressing quality over quantity, extending compulsory education, popularizing secondary education, and increasing opportunities for post-secondary education."

Five key points from the Chapter Three: Historical Perspective of Education

1. During the past seventy-five years the total number of public school students in US doubled and was necessary required many additional teachers and more school building.

2. The Law 94-142, the education for All Handicapped Children Act- did  schools begin to develop well-designed programs for students with disabilities.

3. The field of education has taken giant strides toward becoming a profession since World War II. Therefore, there have been many changes and improvements in the teaching, so the education systems have grown in complexity, especially in funding and control.

4. Many recents trends in education include professional advancements such as analysis of the teaching act, teacher effectiveness research, sociological studies, the development of new learning theories, and other research efforts designed to help us better understand and improve student learning.

5. Perspectives  on education have changed historically and are now changing ever more rapidly. This makes predicting the future of education very difficult, perhaps even nearly impossible and somewhat foolhardy. Of course. you will need to try to understand and adapt to these rapid changes, and the challenges they present to you as an educator

2 million minutes

This documentary want to expose the history of the universal importance of education about three superpowers like China, India and the United States. The documentary 2 million minutes talking about that regardless of nationality, the teenager that complete the 8th grade, the clock starts ticking, in other words, from that moment, they have about two million minutes to build and acquire a good sufficient knowledge base to prepare for college and consequently career and how those two million minutes spent in the classroom, studying at home, at work and leisure can contribute or not in their future. 

Dilza Ramos

http://www.artigos.etc.br/a-solucao-dos-problemas-esta-na-educacao-brasileira-saiba-mais.html



The article talks about the Brazilian Education. The significant improvement in recent years. The growing number of people going to schools.

although the education is not yet satisfactory, must be understood as a continue process by the persons involved and their  devotion with the works.

 http://speakingintonguesfilm.info/

"Speaking in Tongues"

This documentary talk about the stories of four student  and their families from completely  different  culture and how they make their way through second-language immersion classes (language programs)  and what is the implications  the second language can be chance theirs life.

I guess that for this students a second language is necessary because  they are immigrants, and need to communicate across cultures. And if you are bilingual, mainly If you have a English with second-language, we can can communicate with news and different cultures.

This blog was created in the St. Cloud State University, to subject SPED 200 Introduction to Education. Professor Kathy Johnson.
The goal for this blog is expose my point of view about education and discuss with another people that have interest about the theme.