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Today Japan has the third largest economy in the world – their economic boom in the 1980’s, solidified their status as one of the leading countries, when it comes to buying power and technology, even with a working culture that seems foreign for the majority of western countries. With their at least +40 working hours a week, one has to be committed to both the work as well as the workplace. So committed to their work, that death-by-over-work, is a common phrase in Japan. During the 80’s the most prestigious job one could get would be a ‘life-time-job’, and the only way to get such a job, was if one had perfect marks on everything. This has created privately owned kindergartens, middle- and high schools, which all have ties to different prestigious universities and respected companies, where only the rich can afford to admit their children. This also means that a plethora of lower- and middle- income families basically are excluded from these schools. Only if the parents get a second, or perhaps a third job, would they be able to afford these, or if the child is gifted enough to be

Australia can be said as world most developed countries, but in education sectors the disadvantages still exist. Perth as metropolitan area have a lot of the best teachers, equipped schools and high income salary. But there are still some lower socio-economic areas that can be seen the educational disadvantage.

The United States is considered to be one of the biggest powerhouses in the world, but when it comes to education in the U.S, we’re consider to be average. How is it that other nations who aren't as powerful as the U.S, be ahead us in education? Examples of these nations are South Korea, Finland, and Poland. Amanda Ripley sought to find an answer to this question.

Education is the foundation of a strong and productive individual as well as being the foundation for a strong and productive country. Any country that keeps its' people uneducated or does not help to educate them cannot hold them entirely responsible for their actions that result from their lack of education. The United States and Japan both feel very strongly about education and that they need to have well educated people. Both of these countries have educational systems that are similar in some ways and yet very different in other ways. Both the similarities and the differences of these two systems give light to how each of these countries go about educating its' people and how much each of these countries

UNICEF on child wellbeing reported that the United States and the United Kingdom are ranked

Our nation is LAGGING in academics compared to other nations, such as South Korea, Finland, and Japan. According to Emmeline Zhao (2012), the students of the United States scored lower on academic tests compared to other countries. However, the United States is not the worst performing nation. Its academic growth is lacking (Zhao, 2012).

country is not even ranked in the top ten countries for education? An adversary of this

Alison’s article is about Japanese mothers who are into educating their children. Main point of this article is that how Japanese people care so much about education success and how much it affect to children. Alison’s main argument is Japanese school system only cares about children’s ability to perform what a school wants instead of what children can actually do. Alison’s analysis about Japanese society is basically programming children into productive machine rather than human with intelligence mind. It seems Alison’s point definitely on right track. Based on how Japan managed to improve their economic situation, Japan won’t change their way of educating children.

One could speculate many reasons for the vast difference in the PISA 2015 score between Japan and the U.S. The evidence concludes that Japan captures the motivation from students from the ages of 15 to 19 based on the enrolment rate (OECD, n.d.). Age 15 is critical to Japan and to PISA, therefore the timing is evident. Introducing those who are in the next age bracket, 20-29, is difficult to guide them toward educational ventures. [add?]

I searched about which country has the best education system in the world. There are different results for ten top countries where have the best education system. In some of their ranking there is America name and in some of them is not, but in some of them there is one name, Finland. For example, according to Which Country Comes Top for Skills and Education by Tim Leopold and Tamara Leonardi on AGENDA website, Finland is the best country in world with the all elements that the best education system needs to have. When I read this page, I wanted to study more about Finnish education system. There is some interesting information that show Finland government spends more money on education instead of its military. For example, according to Finland Ministry of Defense website that this country spends 2658.8 million Euros which is just 1.29 percent of the Finland GDP. On the other hand, according to Center on International Education Benchmarking website Finish government spent 6.1 percent of Finland GDP in 2011 that is over three times of defense budget. Thus, these information clarify the reason of having the best rank of the education in the world by Finland. They understood the only way to improve their country is improve their knowledge. However, these amounts are not my reason to compare America with Finland, but my goal is to say a country can be successful by pay on education than

In these articles that analyzed and ranked nations based on education I noticed that Finland and South Korea were frequently at the top of lists, so I used the search terms “Finland education system,” “Finland education reform,” “Finland grading,” and “South Korean education system.” The

Teachers are always assigning homework in the textbook and of course every student complains. Not only because they have homework, but because they have to lug home multiple textbooks. Many school districts have been trying to find a way to solve this complaint. What school board officials have come up with is replacing the textbooks with notebook computers or tablets. It is the 21st century, there is technology booming everywhere. However, converting the notebook computers might not be the greatest decision.

South Korea also has one of the strictest and highly rated education systems in the world (Sorensen 1994). The extremely high number of

Richard Wellings, of the Institute of Economic Affairs believes that the mechanically talented would benefit more from learning workplace skills, while the academically or artistically gifted might thrive by developing their own interests rather than studying the National Curriculum . These opinions may be valid, but not within his context of proving that the government is spending too much money on education. It proves that more money needs to be spent on giving pupils the scope they desire within their learning or at the very least that the funding already given to schools should be reallocated. Another opposing viewpoint is that sufficient funding is already given to education and increasing this budget will not make a substantial difference in improving pupil’s attainment. Granted, Britain’s education system is by no means sub-par, however it only takes one glance at the ever-rising attainment gap to pinpoint its major flaws. The First Minister launched the Scottish Attainment Challenge in February 2015, after findings revealed that pupils in the wealthiest areas of Scotland are more than six times as likely to get three A’s in their Highers than those in the poorest communities . Its aim is to raise the attainment of young people living in deprived areas, in order to close the equity gap, and will subsequently set the