School Choice and Educational Inequality in South Korea

Soo yong Byun, Kyung Keun Kim, Hyunjoon Park

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Abstract

Using a nationally representative sample of eleventh grade students in South Korea, we investigated how the residentially based school assignment policy called the High School Equalization Policy (HSEP) shaped the separation of low and high socioeconomic status (SES) students between schools. We found that there was a smaller between-school separation in the HSEP regions than in the non-HSEP regions. We also found that student achievement significantly depended on a school's mean SES only in the non-HSEP regions. We discuss the implications of these findings for the potential impact of school choice policies on educational inequality for Korea and beyond.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)158-183
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of School Choice
Volume6
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2012

Keywords

  • High School Equalization Policy
  • South Korea
  • educational inequality
  • school choice
  • segregation

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