• ‘JUKU BOOM’
• 20% of school library budget redirected
• 40 percent of al Yokohama city-run schools will be installed with solar panels this year
• 95% of edu boards opposed to revealing test scores nationwide
• Boredom main reason for pte school exodus
• Bully news: Panel on bullying issues survey results, manual
• Bullying cases come to light due to new definitions of bullying
• Bullying news: 2 students sue classmates, local govt over bullying
• Bullying news: Court rulings used to study bullying
• Bullying news: Government calls school authorities to adopt a “resolute attitude” to putting an end to the bullying
• Bullying news: Govt to boost No. of school counselors
• Bullying news: High school suspends 9 over repeated bullying
• Bullying news: Measures taken by boards of education and schools to combat bullying
• Bullying news: New form of bullying by e-mail on rise
• Bullying news: No. of bullying cases on the rise
• Bullying news: Saga city has an anti-bullying policy
• Bullying news: School bullying cases dip 19% in 2007 school year
• Bullying news: The reality of bullying
• Bullying news: U.K. and Japan share notes on ways to curb bullying
• Bullying Reflects Problems in Adult Society
• Community schools gaining popularity
• Current concerns (1)
• Current concerns (2)
• Current concerns (3)
• Current concerns (4) – Debating patriotism in education
• Current concerns (5)
• Current concerns (6)
• Current concerns (7)
• Current concerns (8)
• Current concerns (9)
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    • Current concerns (19) Errors in entrance exam marking / School authorities jostle for better rankings in this year’s national achievement tests
    • Current concerns (11): Teachers slip up via Google Map use, school stabbing & cannabis crimes
    • Current concerns (12) Edu ministry proposes cell phone ban
    • Current concerns (13)
    • Current concerns (14) – high school cram-free no more, teachers’ workload to increase
    • Current concerns (15): When juku goes to school; would-be teachers from rural areas courted by metropolitan areas
    • Current concerns (16): The state of English language instruction
    • Current concerns (17)
    • Current concerns (18) Regulations on running pte nurseries to tighten in Tokyo; possible liberalization of nursery system
    • Current concerns (19): Children to receive justice lectures
    • Current Concerns (20): LEC uni, new child-care bill, no. of quake-proof schools up
• Drawing out hikikomori:
• English language education in Japan
  • ‘Our teachers don’t know how to teach’
  • Boosting English education
  • Cash problem hinders English education in Japan, hitting local governments hardest
  • Gorsuch article on influences limiting EFL teachers’ ability to teach English communicative skills / Charles Jannuzi’s rebuttal follows
  • Helene J. Uchida’s comments on quality of Eigo Noto
  • Inability of students to communicate is a common failing of English education in Japan
  • Japan’s universities too diversified, too focused on abstractions … say critics
  • Limitations of English education in elementary schools
  • Most schools starting English – Jun. 30, 2009
  • Nearly half of primary schools in Tokyo area planning to begin English classes from April for 5th & 6th graders
  • The fundamental flaws of English education in Japanese public schools
  • Triple-team teaching at primary school
• English on the go!
• Entrance exams more competitive this year, more parents want kids to go to better schools amidst economic downturn
• Fewer Japanese studying abroad
• Forestry curriculum for kids by Kochi U. agricultural department
• Gov. and local views on the need for / right to “compulsory education”
• Govts to pay juku tuition for kids in foster care
• Is the private school advantage real?
• Japan’s teaching on war doesn’t deserve bad press
• Japanese higher education now out of reach for kids of single parent households says poll
• Juku news
  • Cram schools forced to change
  • In the news: “Route H” juku course from Benesse Corp.
  • Japanese children cram to boost achievement
  • Sapix, Daiichi Seminar and Trygroup tutors despatched to help Osaka schools
• Latest changes in English education
• MEXT worried about non-school attendance of children of foreign nationals
• Moral edn lessons to teach kids to be more law-abiding
• More moms teaching preschoolers: survey
• More universities creating sports-related faculties
• Panel eyes new schools on vocational education
• Public schools seek community support
• Quake preparedness
• Record number of elementary school school violence incidents
• Researchers discover area of brain related to foreign language grammar proficiency
• Schools in Osaka Prefecture take ability-based approach
• Sophia University / Jochi University merger with Seibo in the news
• Special deregulation zones – Tokku Schools
• Students at prefectural Tsuruoka Chuo High School participate and assist in Keio U. lab’s cutting-edge research
• Students of the Kyoto Miyama High School correspondence course in the news
• Teachers learn to make students think
• The poor are always with us … even more so now in our public schools
• When a princess in Japan attends school
• When politics affect the national curriculum