All posts tagged "education"

  • Seoul National University (Yonhap)
    SNU opens school for North, South Korean students and teachers

    By Kim Bo-eun Seoul National University’s Unification Education Research Center is opening a school that will welcome both students and teachers from North and South Korea. The three-month program, which students attend every other Saturday, begins this...

    • Posted August 26, 2015
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  • Washington Association for Korean Schools teachers gathered inside St. Andrew Kim Korean School in Baltimore Saturday for a paper folding lecture.
    Baltimore Korean school teachers learn history through paper

    By The Korea Times Washington DC staff How does paper folding sound as a method to learn history? The Korean American Paper Cultural Foundation handed out an arrangement of colorful sheets to a group of teachers Saturday...

    • Posted August 25, 2015
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  • SAT, test
    SoCal students gather for a taste of the new SAT

    The event was co-organized by the Korea Times, Radio Seoul and Elite Educational Institute. Six hundred students gathered inside Cal State Fullerton Saturday for a full-length practice of the new SAT. Students from 7th to 11th grade...

    • Posted August 24, 2015
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  • Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Va. (Courtesy of Jim via Flickr/Creative Commons)
    2015 Newsweek public schools ranking released: NJ places 6 in top-10, Whitney No. 6

    Newsweek released its 2015 rankings of public schools in the U.S. using a system that considered categories such as college readiness, graduation rate, college-bound and poverty. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va....

    • Posted August 20, 2015
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  • kops
    Good news: 87-year-old finally gets her college degree

    By Brian Han It’s never too late to learn. 87-year-old Eleanor Kops graduated from the University of Nebraska with about 750 other students on Sunday. Before starting up her education, she had not been to a college...

    • Posted August 18, 2015
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  • Nicole_1
    Where should I go to college? Student stories, UC-Riverside

    By Nicole Han For a lot of students, going to college is akin to stepping into the great unknown. It’s the next step in life, but it feels more like a huge leap. The important thing isn’t...

    • Posted August 12, 2015
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  • The Korean Institute of Southern California held its 58th annual workshop for teachers Saturday inside Wilshire Park Elementary School in Los Angeles. (Choi Kyung-geun/Korea Times)
    Workshop gathers SoCal Korean language teachers

    By Park Ji-hye A room filled with 120 Korean language teachers from 12 Southern California schools attended a workshop Saturday titled “Studying How to Study” inside Wilshire Park Elementary School in Los Angeles. The annual gathering, organized...

    • Posted August 10, 2015
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