For this project, we were instructed to choose a topic about schools and schooling systems. My partner and I decided to compare American Schooling and Korean schooling. This project stretched across all subjects and for the ELA project we were required to create a presentation and an annotated bibliography. Click here to view our presentation. This below is our Bibliography.

Korean Schooling Versus America Schooling

Hughes, Mark. “School Years around the World.” Infoplease, Info Please, 6 May 2019, www.infoplease.com/world/world-statistics/school-years-around-world

This article is comparing schooling from all over the world. For our assignment, I focused on the South Korean portion of the article. This article explains that S. Korean schools typically run from March to February. Their school days usually last for 8-9 hours, but most students stay later in the evenings. Classes are big, normally about 30 students, and students take initiative to keep the classrooms clean.

This site is a decent source of information. Infoplease is a website with different types of information on culture, history, government, and science. They have a shortcut to their links and references and have a team of editors. This article seems very scholarly and the source is a part of an education company called FENLearning.

Kim, Isaac. “Education: Korean High School vs. American High School.” Idigculture, I Dig Culture, 8 Sept. 2014, www.idigculture.com/education-korean-high-school-vs-american-high-school

This article is an analysis of certain aspects of South Korean and American schooling. Their main topics are school hours, grading systems, and vacation time. In Korean schools, classes are from 8-5, most students staying past that. On the contrary, Most American schools are from 8-2. Students may stay after, but they are normally for extracurricular activities like dance and drama. Also, In Korea there grading is based on ranks and fighting for the top, whereas in American school students are encouraged to “take things slow” and are not ranked. Lastly, this article compares the differences in school years. Korean schools have summer and winter vacations that last for about a month. In America, we have summer, spring, fall, and winter break, including breaks for holidays. This article is fairly recent (2014) but it is not the most reliable source. This article is very biased towards Korean schooling and talks down upon the American side. While this article is very organized, it comes from a blog about culture. The author of this article has no real credentials and has no sources listed. It’s difficult to find any other Information on this article and its sources.

Tucker, Marc. “These Asian Countries Are Winning the Education Game.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 1 Mar. 2016, www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/us-asia-education-differences/471564/.

This article discusses how the “reason” as to why the U.S. is lagging behind is because they allow students the option for failure. Schools in the U.S. blame being behind on the fact that students are underprivileged, but countries that are worse off still have students that are doing better compared to the U.S. When a student in the United States begins to fall back, they continue to fall because they are not being assisted. East Asian countries prevent students from falling behind because they help that student from the beginning. East Asian countries don’t give their students the opportunity to fall behind.

This article is a very well supported source of information because all of the claims are supported statistically. This article is a couple of years old, but the information given won’t statistically change in the time span of 3 years. The author of this article is the CEO of the National Center on Education, and he was also the editor of the book Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems. The information in this article is very documented and organized. The article also provided a large amount of information that shows the similarities between Asian education and American education.

“Time in School: How Does the U.S. Compare?” Centerforpubliceducation.org, www.centerforpubliceducation.org/research/time-school-how-does-us-compare.

The main topic of this article is the differences between how long the United States stays in school compared to other areas of the world. Students in Asian countries, such as China, attend school longer than students in America, which seems to be the most used reason as to why Asian students perform better. Even though Asian students attend school longer, they are receiving the same, or even less, instructional time compared to America. People feel as though Asian students do better because they spend more time in school each day, but most of that time is not dedicated to instructional time. Asian countries require less instructional time because the students are given more work in shorter amounts of time. Students in Asian countries also put in the extra educational time, aside from the 868 required hours. Asian schools have a lower required amount of school time, but most of the time they exceed that required amount of time.

This article seems reliable because it is published by the Center for Public Education. I am not positive as to how current the article is because the publish date is unknown. The information seems well documented, every now and then the text is broken in order to explain how they received their information. The article seems very scholarly because the information is very factual and has a very small amount of opinionated information. This article shows how the amount of time spent in school doesn’t really predict how successful the students become.

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