• 2007 major revisions to School Education Law
• A guide to choosing international schools
• Achievement tests in public schools: when, why & what for
  • Academic achievement tests truly nationwide
• Alice Gordenker on Japanese kindergartens
• Alice Gordenker on School Refusers
• “Alternative Education” by Heather Nelson
• Are there any Japanese boarding schools?
• Boarding School Q: Now why would you want to send your kid away?
  • Why parents consider U.S. boarding schools
    • More notes on boarding schools around the globe & admissions prep
    • Top UK boarding/prep schools listing
      • Handful of independent schools seize a third of Oxbridge places
      • Price of private school fees skyrocket
• Chasing after creativity (and cash)
• Childhood encounters with science by Nobel laureates
• Deciding between the local Japanese public school or an international school option
  • How to enroll your child in a Japanese public school
    • Qualifying age for preschool – elementary – jr high – sr high school – college?
• Directions in science education
• Education articles by Alice Gordenker
• Education column by John Davis
• Fashioning an ideal education in this day and age
• Free compulsory education … not really free, and poor kids fall thru the cracks in Japan
• Haggling over history
• How tech-savvy is your kid’s school?
  • Technology: Use of “clickers” in local universities (Hokkaido U, Tohoku U and Kochi U of Technolgy)
• How textbook screening works in Japan
• Inside the cramschool pressure cooker: the juku system
  • Japanese Schoolchildren ‘Cram’ To Boost Achievement
• Internet links related to the J-educational system
• Internet Links to topics on Education in Japan
• Is the private school advantage real?
• Japan’s ‘exam hell’ now reaches into preschool:
  • Alice Gordenker on 6th grade ‘exam hell’
• Language acquisition process vs. e-testing objectivity
• Mainichi on the price of an education in Japan
• Moral education: Japanese primary school songs and the values represented therein
  • On citizenship education in Japan
• Nobel laureates criticize the Japanese education system
• Our children are being bullied!!!
  • Bullying behavior in Japanese schools – a discourse on ~
  • Bullying Behavior in Japanese Schools:Discrimination in a Homogeneous Society
  • Chiba city’s Board of Education works to combat school bullying and absenteeism
  • Gareth Lewis on school as a form of bullying and zero tolerance on bullying
  • Ijime Zero, an NGO campaign against bullying – in the news
  • Psychologist warns against turning bullies into criminals
  • Resources on bullying and its prevention
  • TELEVIEWS / TV should focus hard on bullying
  • The Ijime Mondai in Japan vs. Worldwide Bullying Problem
  • The role of school nurses in detecting bullying and helping bullied victims
  • What parents can do to address/prevent bullying of their children & what to do if their children are bullying others
  • What to do when your child is being bullied in a Japanese school
  • Where to find statistics on bullying and related matters
    • In the news: High school suspends 9 over repeated bullying
• Private school appeal: the track to elite universities
• Putting back the hours … will it be enough?
• Q&A on integrating foreign kids into local public school system
  • Keeping foreign kids in the school system
• Rationality more important than intelligence: IQ tests miss detecting some rational thinking skills totally
• Relaxed education policy – failure or cut short while bearing fruit?
• Route map for the college-bound child
• Schools as minders of gender
  • Can girls excel in math and science? Motivation and expectations matter
  • Career expectations & the career gender gap in Japan
  • Education Gender Gaps in Japan
  • Eliminating the gender gap in education
  • The Iceland Exception: A Land Where Girls Rule in Math
• Serving up “super science” education
• Shogi for summer anybody?
• Single-sex or co-ed schools?
• The “han” at work: community spirit begins in elementary school
• The case for single sex schools
• The history of alternative education in Japan
• The importance of nurturing bilingualism – from the former Prime Minister of Singapore
• The importance of rank in Japan and in Japanese education
• The intangible curriculum of a Japanese education
  • On omoiyari and the sasshi no bunka or “guessing culture” training
• The Japanese History Textbook issue
• The Mindset of Monozukuri and creativity in a traditional art form applied in science & technology today
• The Mindset of Monozukuri: From mechanical dolls to vending machines and house-bots
• The political dimension of educational policy
• The political dimensions of education
• The real source of success in Japanese education
• The state of history and geography education in Japan
• The tutoring option
• The unified school option
• Thoughts on art education — the importance of learning to draw
  • Report emphasizes the important role of 3D learning and hands-on crafts in education
    • The Origami Effect, creativity and the role of art and hands-on in education (Forum Discussion)
• Totsuya Yacht School case illuminates the problems of reform schools: “Lord of the Flies” institutionalized?
• University exam negative washback effect on English education
• Usefulness of national testing vs. fears of excessive competition
  • Do standardized tests imply objectivity?
  • Schools hold achievement tests 4.22.09
• Vocational schools on the move
  • Panel eyes new schools for vocational education
• What employers want from graduates
• What employers want from graduates: ability to apply knowledge to the real world
• What has messhi hoko got to do with education in Japan?
• What is being bilingual worth?
• What is the National Curriculum?
• What it takes to have the best school systems
• What’s the difference between nursery school and kindergarten in Japan?
• When creativity clashes with the academics race
• Which international school is suitable for your child?
• Why does the Japanese school year start in April?
• Why dumbing down education isn’t cutting it
• Why University of Tokyo is at the top of the educational hierarchy
• Widening gap between first and second tier universities
• Yochien (J- Kindergarten): To go or not to go…is the question.