Bray, M.: Confronting the shadow education system. What government policies for what private tutoring?

What ain’t mathematics education?!

Abstract: In 1996 at the first Iranian Mathematics Education Conference (IMEC1) that was held in Isfahan. I obliged myself as a mathematics educator, to inform the mathematics community at large by presenting a paper entitled “what is mathematics education?” to pave the way for the establishment of the master program of mathematics education in Iran. Now, after 16 years, we need to reflect on t...

"What the shadow knows".

Shadow Education: School Quality and Demand for Private Tutoring in Korea†‡

Private tutoring is known to be pervasive in many parts of the world, and yet has received scanty attention from economists. This paper empirically examines the determinants of the demand for private tutoring in South Korea, where the thriving and expanding industry of private tutoring industry already constitutes a major conduit for education alongside formal schooling. Korean households spend...

Paying for what government should do.

Barack Obama released in February, called " A New Era of Responsibility, " is as much a philosophy of government as a fiscal action plan. Gone is the Ronald Reagan view that " government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. " Obama rightly sees an expanded role for government as vital to meeting the 21st-century challenge of sustainable development. The scientific disc...

A Shiite innatist conception of reason, and what it can do for religious education (RE)

In this study I have argued for a theoretical foundation of a coherent and defensible religious education (RE). It has been said that for RE to be accepted as a reasonable subject matter it should be researchable. But for a subject to be researchable, or research based, it needs to be supported by reason, a kind of reason that have a public and universal character. On the other hand we need a c...