Offers a snapshot of key educational stratification issues in East Asian nations, and their evolution in conjunction with changing student populations. This book addresses issues ranging from curricular adaptations to globalization, to persisting and new forms of educational stratification, to new multiculturalism in educational policy.

Here, Hyunjoon Park puts the critical stereotypical views of education in Japan and Korea under the microscope to decipher whether or not they are true, or unfounded, based on empirical evidence which uses international student achievement data as its core.

What does it mean to become an adult in the face of economic uncertainty and increasing racial and immigrant diversity? Nearly half of all young people in the United States are racial minorities, and one in four are from immigrant families. Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America offers a comprehensive overview of young people across racial and immigrant groups and their paths through traditional markers of adulthood-from finishing education, working full time, and establishing residential independence to getting married and having children. Taking a look at the diversity of...

What does it mean to become an adult in the face of economic uncertainty and increasing racial and immigrant diversity? Nearly half of all young people in the United States are racial minorities, and one in four are from immigrant families. Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America offers a comprehensive overview of young people across racial and immigrant groups and their paths through traditional markers of adulthood-from finishing education, working full time, and establishing residential independence to getting married and having children. Taking a look at the diversity of...