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Showing posts with label Japanese schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese schools. Show all posts
Thursday, February 21, 2013

College for All Destined to Disappoint

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When comparing the education systems of different countries,simply comparing test scores such as PISA or NAEP (or whatever) gives insufficie...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Characteristics of Japanese Textbooks

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It is the chicken and egg puzzle. Which came first, the teaching philosophy or the textbook? Do teaching methods and philosophy determine ...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

The Foolishness of Educational Ethnocentrism

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Anytime the Japanese education system, and the advisability of adopting some of its features, comes up, most certainly voices will arise in ...
Monday, June 2, 2008

What do You Know About Japanese Education? Part 3

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You can find the original “quiz” in Part 1 . Part 2 is here . 7. Japanese students behave better than American students. False. Kids are k...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

What do You Know About Japanese Education? Part 2

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You can find the original “quiz” in Part 1 . 4. Japanese students take responsibility for keeping their school clean. False. It is tru...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

What do You Know About Japanese Education? Part 1

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Here is a little quiz. Every one of these statements was taken from one Western publication or another. Which statements are true and whic...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007

The Goal in Japan is NOT to Pass the Entrance Exam...

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...Rather the goal is to avoid failing it. For Americans this may not seem to be an important distinction, but it is essential for understa...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Japanese Schools are More Homogeneous than US Schools.

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There are many reasons why Japanese secondary schools display a much more uniform high quality than US secondary schools, including, but not...