Where Computers and Classrooms Meet – Policy Successes and Struggles in South Korean Education Reform

    By Charleen Chiong (@CNCharleen), University of Cambridge The tides are turning in classrooms in South Korea. In the 1960s, a wave of industrialization swept the young republic, causing rapid economic and educational growth. The roots of Confucian philosophy remain: the community places a high premium on education, and the system is rigid and hierarchical, …

Advocating for Clean Technology

By Johannes Urpelainen (@jurpelai), Columbia University Many of today's environmental challenges could be solved with clean technology, such as wind or solar power. If technologies with negative environmental impacts were replaced with more sustainable alternatives, the environmental burden of human activity could be reduced. The technical solutions exist, and their deployment is ultimately a question of …