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Peer reviewedYang, Hua – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1994
The common assumption that Japanese students do well academically because their schools are more academically oriented than American schools is misguided. Results of a study comparing middle-school teachers in Japan and the United States indicated that American teachers allocated a greater proportion of their time to academic work than did…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
