This study takes note of changes in school accountability policies from 2009 to 2015 in Korea utilizing OECD PISA data from 2006 to 2015. We found that active implementation of the accountability policy (2009-2012 period) were effective in raising the academic performance of students and schools...

Digital textbooks, which are equipped with various learning resources including multimedia aids, assessment questions, and hyperlinks to external resources, can be an important channel for harnessing technologies in classrooms. Korea's digital textbook experiment provides a unique empirical...

Digital textbooks, which are equipped with various learning resources including multimedia aids, assessment questions, and hyperlinks to external resources, can be an important channel for harnessing technologies in classrooms. Korea’s digital textbook experiment provides a unique empirical...

This article documents the expansion of college education in the United States and examines to what extent the increase in the number of college graduates may have lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates. Using the 1940-90 Census, we compare across birth year cohorts with...