Increasing income inequality particularly since the economic crisis of 1997 has called
attention to the issue of growing educational inequality in South Korea. Although much …

In this paper, I summarise empirical findings regarding the degree of and trend in inequality
of educational opportunity in South Korea to indicate the extent to which individuals' …

The expansion of the education system in South Korea over the last three decades has been
dramatic; so dramatic that the nation has moved from the lowest to the highest country in the …

During the past few decades, South Korea has experienced a remarkable educational
expansion at its secondary and tertiary levels as well as at the primary level, resulting in …

Bias within schooling has been explained as a process of converting social status into
academic achievement.'In the study reported here, this process is examined at Hanseong …

This article reviews research on the coevolution of educational expansion and educational
inequality within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the post–World War II period …

Since the release of the results from PISA 2000, Finland has been lauded as a high-
performing, high-equity country. This success has been attributed in part to an egalitarian 9 …

Using a nationally representative sample of eleventh grade students in South Korea, we
investigated how the residentially based school assignment policy called the High School …

China has achieved tremendous economic success over the past three decades; however,
this remarkable economic development has come at the expense of an equal and equitable …

This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of
grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA's Trends in …