Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States Summary of a Workshop (2015) / Chapter Skim
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2 Although Korea's population is roughly twice that of Texas, its land area is much smaller -- approximately the size of Kentucky or Virginia. The United States spends $10,995 per K–12 student in public education, while Korea spends $6,723, but outpaces U.S.
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5 Although Korean performance on international assessments has received much attention in the United States, the structure of Korea's education system is far less well known. The accounts in this report offer an introduction to this system.
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Constitution states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." 8 English translations of recent curricula are at the National Curriculum Information Center, http://www.ncic.re.kr/english.index.do. 9 See Education in Korea, p.
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In the United States, determination of curriculum guidelines and textbook criteria is distributed between state governments and school districts. Each state has a department of education, which sets performance standards.
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11 The development of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium as consortial assessments was supported, through a competitive grant process, by the United States Department of Education. These consortia worked with educators from around the country to develop tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
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A U.S. mathematician was struck by who was involved in developing instructional tasks -- a team of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and mathematics teachers -- and said that he would love for that to be routine in the United States.
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. In addition to the account of a teacher who almost left teaching, Chapter 6 gives an overview of the landscape of professional learning communities in the United States.
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In the United States, NCLB is "the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test-based accountability that has been going on for decades," according to the National Research Council report Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education (2011)
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