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Aki Sakuma; Naoto Shimazaki; Nadezhda Murray, Translator – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2024
This paper examined the actual circumstances of the recent teacher shortage in public elementary and junior high schools in X Prefecture. Although teacher shortages had been reported, few previous studies had investigated them empirically. With the cooperation of all five branch offices of the Board of Education, data were collected through three…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary Schools
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Agnello, Mary Frances; Araki, Naoko; Domenach, Florent – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2019
As Japanese Ministry of Education educational mandates for implementation by 2020 press on public school administrators, teachers, students, and communities, the Sustainable Programming Education proposes strategies for addressing English and programming education curricula in the elementary and middle schools. Sustainability resides in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Rural Areas, Programming, Computer Science Education
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Matsuoka, Ryoji – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2015
Sociologists in education have pointed out disparities associated with socioeconomic status (SES) in the Japanese compulsory education system that was once regarded as egalitarian. In addition to disparities between individual students, prior studies have empirically shown SES-based disparities among schools on important indicators such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Institutional Characteristics, Teaching Conditions
Ngwudike, Benjamin C. – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this paper was to examine the cross-national performance of fourth- and eighth-grade students in mathematics on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003. The TIMSS assessment data were used to identify nations that have a competitive edge in the critical area of mathematics. The Trends in International…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Persistence