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	Elementary school in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Japanese elementary schooling is acknowledged both in Japan and abroad to be excellent, but not without some problems, notably increasing absenteeism and school refusal and a declining but troublesome number of cases of bullying (ijime).
		Elementary school education is seen in Japan as fundamental in shaping a positive attitude toward lifelong education.
		Regardless of academic achievement, almost all children in elementary school are advanced to junior high schools (lower secondary schools), the second of the two compulsory levels of education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elementary_school_in_Japan (991 words)

	Education in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much of official school life is devoted directly or indirectly to teaching correct attitudes and moral values and to developing character, with the aim of creating a citizenry that is both literate and attuned to the basic values of culture and society (see Japanese values).
		But temple schools (terakoya) educated peasants too, and it is estimated that at the end of the Edo period 50% of the male and 20% of the female population possessed some degree of literacy.
		Educational and athletic facilities are good; almost all elementary schools had an outdoor playground, roughly 90 percent have a gymnasium, and 75 percent have an outdoor swimming pool.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Education_in_Japan (2881 words)

	Japan Elementary School - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Virtually all elementary education takes place in public schools; less than 1 percent of the schools are private.
		Japanese elementary schooling is acknowledged both in Japan and abroad to be excellent, but not without some problems, notably increasing absenteeism and a declining but troublesome number of cases of bullying.
		Regardless of academic achievement, almost all children in elementary school are advanced to lower-secondary schools, the second of the two compulsory levels of education.
	www.photius.com /countries/japan/society/japan_society_elementary_school.html (882 words)

	AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Students were observed at school with special attention paid to how the school socialized students to prepare for jobs or further schooling and how students envisioned their own futures.
		Because this study focused on a co educational school and also examined boys and their plans, girls' decisions are placed in the more general context of their class position, their academic abilities and degrees, and their view of their future economic earnings.
		The current pressure on Japan by the international community to reduce its trade surplus by promoting domestic consumption is challenging this tacit privileging of "service," "quality," and loyalty to the collectivity by suggesting a prioritization of the citizen, the consumer, the individual.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/japan/jses99.htm (2934 words)

	Elementary School Discovery Box
		The route to school is determined by the school and mothers are encouraged to have their children adhere to this prescribed route.
		Schools take great pride in their lunch and will boast if their lunches are prepared on site as opposed to externally because the rice is hot and the food fresh.
		Indeed, in some schools there are tatami rooms where children learn to eat correctly in an old fashioned way--with chopsticks, on the floor, waiting on one another, and holding their chopsticks correctly.
	www.intleducenter.umd.edu /japan/marjis/resourcecenter/elemschool.htm (7011 words)

	CNN.com - At least 8 dead in Japan school stabbings - June 8, 2001
		TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- At least eight children were killed and 21 people were wounded Friday when a knife-wielding man stormed an elementary school in Osaka, Japan.
		Police said the man entered the Ikeda Elementary School during a break in classes and stabbed students and teachers with a 6-inch kitchen knife.
		Police said the suspect was a 37-year-old psychiatric patient and former employee of another school who lived in the area and told them he was under the influence of drugs during the rampage.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/08/japan.stabbing.03 (372 words)

	CNN.com - At least eight dead in Osaka school rampage - June 8, 2001
		TOKYO, Japan -- A man armed with a kitchen knife has forced his way into an elementary school in western Japan killing at least eight children and injuring dozens, authorities and news reports said.
		School officials ordered the children on the school's playground after calling the police.
		A 7-year-old boy playing in a schoolyard in western Japan was fatally stabbed by a teen-age assailant in December 1999.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/06/08/japan.stabbing.02 (385 words)

	School Stabbing Rampage In Japan - CBS News
		Police arrested a teenage boy who was a former student at the school in the faculty room, saying he used an 8-inch kitchen knife to stab two teachers and a school nutritionist.
		In June, an 11-year-old girl led a 12-year-old classmate into an empty classroom in southwest Japan and slit her neck and arms, leaving the girl to bleed to death.
		The school did not post security guards at its entrance while gates to the campus would have been open at the hour of the attack since it was time for younger students to go home for the day, said Chiharu Tsukuda, a spokeswoman for the Neyagawa Board of Education.
	www.cbsnews.com /track/rss/stories/2005/02/14/world/main673984.shtml (729 words)

	An Empty Future? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		What the Washington Post called Japanâs ânational child shortageâ has forced the closing of more than 2000 schools in the past ten years and another 300 per year are scheduled to close between now and 2007.
		It isnât only schools that are feeling effects of the ânational child shortage.â Department stores have replaced rooftop playgrounds with cafes, and villages like Nishiki in northern Japan have been forced to merge with other municipalities.
		Japanâs low birthrate, coupled with its aversion to immigration, is causing its overall population to both shrink -- from 128 million this year to 101 million in 2050 -- and get older: Japan has a higher percentage of people over the age of 65 than any other country.
	www.boundless.org /2005/articles/a0001074.cfm (1343 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Girl fatally stabbed by classmate in Japanese elementary school
		An 11-year-old girl classmate slashed her to death with a box-cutter in an attack in an elementary school in Japan.
		TOKYO – An 11-year-old girl slashed a female classmate to death with a box-cutter Tuesday in a shocking attack in an elementary school in southern Japan, police said.
		Increasing violence in Japan's schools and among youth has been a rising concern in recent years.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040601-0557-japan-girlstabbed.html (369 words)

	Elementary school pictures in Japan
		Graduation ceremony for elementary school in March is held in the gymnasium.
		At middle and high school the oldest years are preoccupied with entrance examinations, so class trips of several days are taken by the next grade lower, 2nd years.
		At the end of 2000 a poster contest was sponsored in the elementary schools of Takefu-city.
	www.geocities.com /pto_gwn/jpn_ele (1463 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He visited the No. 3 Nippori Elementary School because it took the initiative to make English part of the curriculum for students from the first grade after the central government designated the ward a special educational zone.
		Prior to the adoption of a compulsory English curriculum, many elementary schools are taking up English, and in fiscal 2003, pupils at 88 percent of them studied the language in a general study course.
		A junior high school teacher said, 'There is already a gap (in the level of English proficiency) at the time of school entrance.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art5162.txt (294 words)

	Education and Student Life in Japan \| Internet Guide \| National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Presents a description of the elementary school experience of Japanese children.
		Pictures and text describe all aspects of the daily life of an elementary school student from breakfast to bed.
		There is also a message board where students can connect with Japanese high school students as well as an opportunity for students outside of Japan to add their own photos to the site.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/iguides/edu.html (628 words)

	Boston.com / News / Education / K-12 / Picturing friends worldwide
		Students from the schools have traded art as part of an exchange spearheaded by Shrewsbury art teacher Robert Wilson, who aims to help fourth-graders learn about one another despite the barriers of distance and language.
		Floral Street Elementary School principal Joseph Sawyer said the rainbows from South Korea and fireworks from Japan have captured the imagination of adults, too.
		The Floral Street Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization and the American Society of Contemporary Artists awarded him a $750 grant to complete the project.
	www.boston.com /news/education/k_12/articles/2005/03/17/picturing_friends_worldwide (457 words)

	collabproject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I would have liked to have partnered with a kindergarten class, but in Japan elementary schools are from grades 1 - 6 and I didn't have any connections with any of the kindergartens there.
		In Japan, their school year begins in April and ends in March.
		The project we did came at a difficult time for the class in Japan as they were busy getting ready to end their school year.
	www.k12.hi.us /~tnakagaw/network/collabproject.htm (758 words)

	National Case Study on ICT in Schools - Japan - Honcho Elementary School, Yokohama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Honcho Elementary School is located in the downtown of Yokohama City.
		In most of Japanese elementary schools, one teacher teaches and manages for his/her class as a rule.
		In Honcho Elementary School, a team of teachers teaches and manages two or three classes of a grade in collaboration, and evaluate from the each teacher¡s view.
	www.oecd.org /LongAbstract/0,2546,en_2649_201185_2740483_1_1_1_37415,00.html (278 words)

	Elementary Schools in Japan
		Most of the elementary schools in Japan are listed in the directory complied by Osaka University of Education in the page "Educational Institutes in Japan".
		Some of the elementary schools are quite advanced in their projects using computer network.
		Elementary School attached to College of Education of Kumamoto University in Kumamoto Prefecture
	itoshima.at.infoseek.co.jp /Japan/elementaryschool.html (226 words)

	The MARJiS/Japan Elementary School Educational Exchange Network
		Each school was represented by a group of four educators--sixteen participants in the United States and sixteen in Japan, engaged in a program of mutual study, observation, and reflection on the culture of teaching and learning in each country.
		During the first year, the school teams on each side of the Pacific engaged in the study of Japanese and U.S. society in which they explored the culture of teaching and learning in elementary schools, families, and educational opportunities outside the school.
		During the second year, the school teams in both nations deepen their intercultural knowledge and exchange capacities through joint participation in an education seminar in Japan.
	www.intleducenter.umd.edu /japan/marjis/educationalexchange (338 words)

	Current Education In Japan
		In Japan, a 14-year-old children killed his best friend by slitting his throat in front of the junior high school gate.
		In Japan, a fourteen year olds boy killed his bestfriend and displayed the young boy's head on the junior high school gate on January in 1997.
		So, parents make their children go to juku (a kind of cram school, but the purpose of juku is only study to raise exam score.).
	www.afn.org /~afn07067/yourpage.html (1675 words)

	Japan, Tokyo: American School in Japan
		The American School in Japan is a private, coeducational day school, serving students from age 3 to grade 12 on two campuses: the
		The elementary, middle, and high schools are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
		Enrollment: At the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year, enrollment was 1,524 (N-grade 5: 661; grades 6-8: 351; and grades 9-12: 512).
	www.state.gov /m/a/os/1360.htm (442 words)

	Man stabs 3 adults at Japanese school - World News - MSNBC.com
		TOKYO - A man carrying a knife burst into a public elementary school in western Japan on Monday and stabbed at least three adults, police said.
		Kyodo News reported the attacker was a 17-year-old who graduated from the elementary school.
		School security has been a rising concern in Japan since a man with a history of mental illness killed eight children in a stashing rampage at an elementary school in Osaka in 2001.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6966919 (319 words)

	Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips - Hardware - News - ZDNet Asia
		Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.
		The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids' movements.
		Japan is the perfect place to begin inserting thes...
	www.zdnetasia.com /news/hardware/0,39042972,39186467,00.htm (662 words)

	Elementary School Visit
		The school day begins with the students walking to school.
		At the front of the school, students take off their shoes and put on their slippers.
		The older students led the exercises for the entire school and then the students ran around the dirt track.
	www.amphi.com /~psteffen/fmf/elementary.html (299 words)

	Welcome to Knight Life Online - St. Norbert College
		Tanaka, who has been principal at the school for 19 years, has been making the trip to the United States every other year for 12 years, brining two teachers with her each time.
		The sisters have plans to open a grade school, high school, health-care facility, and are considering opening a college.
		With an enrollment of 1,000 students, Notre Dame Elementary School is the largest and most prestigious Catholic school in Japan.
	www.snc.edu /knightlife/archive/fall2000/teachers.html (466 words)

	Aleppo Elementary School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Aleppo Elementary school students have been collaborating on a project with Nagatsuka Elementary School in Hiroshima, Japan.
		Aleppo fifth graders are managing the project of folding 1000 origami cranes for peace, although every student in the school, as well as last year's 5th graders, have participated.
		June Tahara, the teacher supervising the Crane Project at Nagatsuka Elementary School, sent the following e-mail to Judy Ewing, Elementary Guidance Counselor, who managed the project at Aleppo Elementary.
	www.greenepa.net /~wgsd/elemen/Aleppo.html (380 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Eight children were killed and 15 persons injured in Japan’s worst school tragedy today when a middle-aged man with a history of mental illness went on a stabbing rampage at an elementary school in western Japan.
		Schoolchildren weep on the grounds of Ikeda elementary school in Osaka on Friday after fleeing from their classrooms.
		The injured were mostly seven and eight year-old students at the school in Ikeda, a suburb of the western city of Osaka, and seven of those killed were girls, Japanese media said.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010609/main5.htm (560 words)

	Worldandnation: Attacker kills four at school in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		TOKYO -- A man armed with a knife forced his way into an elementary school in western Japan today and stabbed at least 29 children and teachers, killing four of the students, Fire Department officials said.
		Police official Toshihiko Ajisaka said 26 children, mostly first and second graders, and three teachers were stabbed at the elementary school in Osaka.
		Police said the attacker, a 37-year-old man who carried a knife with a six-inch blade, was arrested at the scene.
	www.sptimes.com /News/060801/news_pf/Worldandnation/Attacker_kills_four_a.shtml (225 words)

	ARRLWeb: Astronaut Thrills Audiences in Japan, Germany via Amateur Radio
		Students at Aoyama Gakuin Elementary School in Japan gather at the 8J1AGE Amateur Radio Earth station for their contact with the ISS.
		As he's indicated in past ARISS school group contacts, Fincke said he's been having a good time in space, although it took a few days to get used to his new environment.
		On hand at the school were nearly 200 visitors, including reporting teams from four television stations, one radio station, four newspapers and a monthly magazine.
	www.arrl.org /news/stories/2004/09/23/2?nc=1 (1032 words)

	Toliver Elementary : Toliver News
		The U.S. Department of Education's Chris Doherty visited Danville High School Monday afternoon to present a Striving Readers Grant in the amount of $16.2 million to the Kentucky Content Literacy Consortium in which the Danville Schools are the primary manager and fiscal agent for the striving readers project.
		The Consortium consists of 7 school districts involving 23 middle and high schools (including Bate Middle School and Danville High School) and partnerships with the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning in Louisville, and the Kentucky Department of Education.
		A bill that is alarming to school officials is SB 12 that would prohibit prosecution of a person who brings a gun onto school property if signs are not posted at every conceivable entrance to school property.
	www.danville.k12.ky.us /toliver (3127 words)

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