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The Making of a Japanese – The beauty of childhood tinged with bitter pressure
From director Ema Ryan Yamazaki comes the documentary The Making of a Japanese. Following the students of an elementary ...
Kids with foreign roots' Japanese language, integration efforts face systemic hurdles
It's a cold and drizzly October day, but the atmosphere is warm and lively inside the second-grade classroom at Takasaki ...
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Japan Makes High School Education Free – Again
Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been ...
Third of boys, half of girls in Tokyo class partook in bullying that led to student's PTSD
At least a third of the boys and half of the girls in one class at a national elementary school here had been involved in ...
Anchorage Daily News5d
Anchorage’s school language immersion programs — among the nation’s most robust for a city its size — are at risk
Absent additional funding from the state Legislature, Anchorage’s premier, 36-year-old immersion programs will suffer at best ...
Fun forest school inspired by Finnish education draws children in Japan's Mie Pref.
Inspired by Nordic education and child-rearing practices, said to be among the best in the world, a unique nature experience ...