Japaneese Education

The students of the Japanese education system go to school approximately from eight-thirty in the morning to four o’clock in the afternoon (Cooper EBSCO). School is not just the five weekdays but also half a day on Saturday (Christopher 87). They go

to school 240 days compared to the 180 days in the United States (Christopher 87). Their education system is like ours regarding the grade levels. Even though they have schooling up to postgraduate it does not mean they complete the upper part of their education. After kindergarten, they go to elementary school like we do, then lower secondary, upper secondary, junior colleges, and university. They go to kindergarten from one to six years old, unlike the one year here in the United States, and they go to elementary school at the age of six. Lower and upper secondary school each takes three years of their life. Ninety-four percent of students go on to the senior high level where the competition is fierce for entry into the best universities (State Department 2). Junior colleges take from two to three years while universities are usually four years long.

The junior high level is still grouped diversely without the differences of the gifted. They often go to a school after school hours. These schools are called “juku” schools, and help prepare them for entrance exams (Cooper EBSCO). In the senior high level, gifted students can complete the three year program in two years. After the two years they can then go straight off to college. The only regions that put students from senior high into accelerated or less skilled class are from urban areas such as Tokyo and Osaka (Cooper EBSCO). Their students go into slow, average, or fast classes. The high schools are ranked by the quality of the school based on the intelligence of the students. In the college levels the students can do as they please. They think in the same process lines of inventors. Hands-on building and abstract imagery systems are some of their strong points. Through a department at Numazu Technical College, junior high schools search for the best students in math and physics. This program has done very well with identifying the better students in each subject. In the robotics program the number of males and females are very different. There are forty males while only having two females in that specific program (Cooper EBSCO).

The students and administration view topics differently in Japan than in the United States. The administration and students work as a team, not individually.

Some topics in this essay:
Kolar III, , United Christopher, Cooper EBSCO, Kolar IX, Hall EBSCO, Japan United, Unlike American, Throughout Japanese, Technical College, education system, japanese education, cooper ebsco, japanese education system, japanese students, lifetime employment system, junior colleges, students senior, lifetime employment, males females, secondary school, senior level,