{"id":41659,"date":"2013-08-06T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=41659"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:31:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:31:01","slug":"the-4-million-teacher-wall-street-journal-amanda-ripley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/08\/06\/the-4-million-teacher-wall-street-journal-amanda-ripley\/","title":{"rendered":"The $4 million teacher [Wall Street Journal; Amanda Ripley]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324635904578639780253571520.html\" target=\"_blank\">The $4 million teacher<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from the Wall Street Journal by Amanda Ripley<br \/>\n<em>South Korea&#8217;s students rank among the best in the world, and its top teachers can make a fortune. Can the U.S. learn from this academic superpower?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher\u2014a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country&#8217;s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons. Unlike most teachers across the globe, he is paid according to the demand for his skills\u2014and he is in high demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mr. Kim works about 60 hours a week teaching English, although he spends only three of those hours giving lectures. His classes are recorded on video, and the Internet has turned them into commodities, available for purchase online at the rate of $4 an hour. He spends most of his week responding to students&#8217; online requests for help, developing lesson plans and writing accompanying textbooks and workbooks (some 200 to date).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;The harder I work, the more I make,&#8221; he says matter of factly. &#8220;I like that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $4 million teacher &#8212; from the Wall Street Journal by Amanda Ripley South Korea&#8217;s students rank among the best in the world, and its top teachers can make a fortune. Can the U.S. learn from this academic superpower? Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,314,387,463,35,180,55,46,62,133,219,89,50,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-asia","category-business","category-flipping-inverted-learning","category-game-changing-environment","category-innovation","category-internet","category-k-12-related","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41662,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659\/revisions\/41662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}