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echo: educator
to: MATT SMITH
from: TOM COTTON
date: 1996-05-21 00:00:00
subject: Re: Japanese education

MS>CB> Reposted wiith permission of the American Federation of Teachers
  >CB> Some
  >CB> criticize the Japanese system for being too rigid and too demanding,
  >CB> but
  >CB> the impressive levels of achievement reached by their students make
  >CB> their
  >CB> standards worthy of close attention.
MS>    Only if you ignore the fact that a very high percentage
  >of Japanese students also go to cram schools after school.
MS>    A more realistic comparison is with students in a U.S. public school 
who
  >are also heavy attendees of the local Sylvan Learning
  >Center and who go through the Kaplan SAT cram program.
Seems this society would rather have basketball after school than cram
schools.
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