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Continuing with our feature on how our Asian neighbors are dealing with the basic primary/secondary education cycle, we turn our attention to the Republic of Korea (ROK). Another country whose primary and secondary students have consistently ranked among the top performers in TIMSS, the Republic of Korea, like Japan, is in a unique situation in that its population speaks basically one language as compared to the Philippines’ 170 or so languages. And like the Japanese, the Koreans are among those avid learners of English as a second language.
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