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All posts tagged "education"

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  Seattle public schools names Korean American educator to equity committee

  Dr. Julie Kang, an advisory board member at the University of Washington, was named to the Equity and Race Advisory Committee of Seattle Public Schools last week. Kang will serve a year in the role. The ERAC...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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  Seoul National University to require payments from professors with side jobs

  By Kim Se-jeong Seoul National University (SNU) is considering making it mandatory for professors who have positions outside the university as directors of private companies to give part of their income to the university. The move is...

  • Posted October 22, 2015
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  Queens College makes academic partnership with two Korean universities

  Queens College in New York made an academic partnership with Korea University and Kyung Hee University Thursday for a collaborative exchange program. Each semester, Queens students will be able to exchange places with students from the Korean...

  • Posted October 16, 2015
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  Where should I go to college? Student stories, James Madison University

  By Jiyoun Jeon If there was one thing I absolutely had to get out of my college experience as a senior in high school, it was to be away from home. So when my acceptance letter to...

  • Posted October 12, 2015
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  How far will S. Koreans go to get into top universities?

  BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — A documentary film about the social and personal costs of South Koreans’ craze for being admitted to the nation’s top three universities depicts a system that is a far cry from President...

  • Posted October 12, 2015
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  Queens public library to begin free Korean classes

    The Korean Education Center of New York reached an agreement with Queens Library in Flushing Thursday to offer free Korean-language lessons once a week. Classes will begin Oct. 16 and be held every Friday from 4...

  • Posted October 9, 2015
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  Teachers film annual Hangul Day movie with third-graders

  By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff When you ask Jeon Ye-sol, a fourth grader at Monte Vista Elementary School in La Crescenta, California, what pops in her head when you say “Hangul Day,” she’ll tell you...

  • Posted October 9, 2015
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