Japanese and Korean high schools and students in comparative perspective

Quality and Inequality of Education: Cross-National Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 255-273

  Park, Hyunjoon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian educational scores; Educational performance; High school systems; Japan; Korean

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952098610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3993-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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