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Academic wokeness, Korean style
By Jason Lim
In a 2008 article titled, Elite Korean Schools, Forging Ivy League Skills, the New York Times wrote about how successful specialized South Korean high schools had been in developing high-performing students geared to getting accepted into top Ivy League schools in the U.S. How successful were they?
If SAT scores are a key performance indicator, then, Their (Daewon) average combined SAT score was 2203 out of 2400. By comparison, the average combined score at Phillips Exeter, the New Hampshire boarding school, is 2085. Sixty-seven Daewon graduates had perfect 800 math scores.
These high schools were pretty successful, I say. From the New York Times descriptions of these schools ― Daewon Foreign Language High School and Korean Minjok Leadership Academy ― I get the impression that they are more of an Olympics-style training facility for gifted athletes, rather than what we would usually think of as schools. ....

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