Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Shouldn't be a surprise Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:27:09 -0400 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <2qs1eeF134hkuU2@uni-berlin.de> References: <73fde4f0.0409140743.73528cd5@posting.google.com> <41475CC4.A8BCCA31@yahoo.co.jp> <4147ADC2.1090402@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de B1VXzrRO3KhZu9h4R3NmuwH5iDHlLEXVbontyilO4tBqODvAA6 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4147ADC2.1090402@yahoo.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18443 John W. wrote: > Rawhead Rex (RSPW's post inspector) wrote: > >> Eric Takabayashi wrote in news:41475CC4.A8BCCA31 >> @yahoo.co.jp: >> >> >>> After all, only 40% of high school graduates >>> in Japan are able to go to ANY university, despite recent reforms and >>> decline in number of children which should be making it easier to >>> enter, >> >> >> >> >> This is why it makes me laugh every time I see an "in-depth report" in >> the States of a reporter extoling the high merits of the Japanese >> educational system, > > > The US, like Japan, has become a test-based-success system. It doesn't > matter how smart you are, just how good your tests scores. The beauty of > 'no child left behind' (the current US education policy) is that many > very good students get dragged down/held back to a lower level. Yeah yeah yeah. "I'm so smart, I just can't take tests" This is the world's smallest violin. - Kevin