The nonprofit organization Metanoia is holding a crowdfunding campaign to establish permanent Japanese language classrooms in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture for children of foreign backgrounds. Metanoia ...

The Japanese education system is facing a crisis. Its elementary and junior high school teachers work the longest hours in the world, according to a global survey. But that effort comes with a cost ...

Stupid, but hardly shocking. The trend where the right not to be offended trumps the right learn and grow is becoming the norm. The teachers should be standing up to censorship, but they are often the ...

Marie Yamase, head of the Matsuyama Sakanoue Japanese School, shows the web page of her crowdfunding campaign, in Matsuyama, on Dec. 12, 2022. (Mainichi/Yasutoshi Tsurumi) MATSUYAMA -- A Japanese ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Japan’s robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it’s not about to replace human instructors.

A new classroom building was handed over to the community of Datu Ayunan Elementary School in Cotabato City to replace its dilapidated classrooms through the funding of the Grant Assistance for ...

Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology mandates the curriculum and approves textbooks for the entire nation, while in the United States, learning materials and how they ...

The new building was constructed with assistance of USD 185,971 (approximately NPR 23.2 million) under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). Tamura Takahiro, Charge ...

All the talk in Japan about classroom collapse, where teachers have lost control and students wander in and out, brings back memories of my junior high in the United States. There was no such thing as ...