Japaneese Education

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).
             Throughout the Japanese education system, high ability students are not recognized. It is discouraged to single out an advanced student even if they are more intelligent or creative. They are not recognized and do not stand out. Avoiding judgment, very carefully, is a major task in their lives. Students only have a few chances to get into accelerated programs. They are however, recognized for their highly original thinking (William EBSCO). Unlike American schools, the better students do not dominate the class, but rather keep to themselves and do their own work.