Lessons for Latin America from Comparative Education: South Korea’s Teacher Policy
Apr 2020
Author(s): Lee, Soohyung;Koh, Anna
In many Asian countries, such as South Korea, teaching is considered a very high-status profession. A teacher in South Korea must meet a minimum qualification, either by graduating from education…
Early Childhood Development: Wealth, the Nurturing Environment and Inequality First Results from the PRIDI Database
Jul 2016
Author(s): Verdisco, Aimee;Cueto, Santiago;Thompson, Jennelle
This paper presents findings from the Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI for its acronym in Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in…