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...rules and regulations permit. This year 30,000 Georgia taxpayers received a newly designed and simply phrased form called 10405. This test design replaces the old short form 1040A. Deductions, income and credits are listed in logical order. The language, say the designers, can be understood by a ninth-grader. The form looks attractive and-almost-inviting. If the Georgia taxpayers approve, the new layouts will be used on all federal income tax returns...
...addition to regular classes and half-days on Saturdays, they often spend up to five additional hours at special cram schools called juku (private academies). This cramming is not just for high school students. A recent survey of Tokyo-area youths found that 75% of fourth, fifth- and sixth-graders were enrolled in some sort of juku in order to pass early exam hurdles and get a head start on becoming one of the 96,000 students accepted each year by public universities. The last years are the hardest, says Jin Watanabe, a tenth-grader. "On the first...
Preoccupation with exams leads the Japanese to emphasize memorization rather than analytical thinking. The pedagogy is simple: the teacher talks, the students listen. Says Taeko Yamato, an English instructor at a private school outside Tokyo: "The school system doesn't let teachers teach well." Admits Twelfth-Grader Ayutaro Kogure: "For the tests you only memorize, which you forget as soon as the exams are over." Some students are beginning to take an uncharacteristically disrespectful course: open rebellion. Youthful crime has jumped 12.4% in the past year, with juveniles accounting for almost half of all criminal offenders in Japan. Violence...
...Courtney Stimpson, the road to the top has not been long, nor has it been particularly tortuous. As a ninth grader Stimpson began playing squash near her Lake Forest, III, home, and a year later she was on the varsity team at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. By her senior year Stimpson was a second year captain and the team's number one player St. Paul's subsequently went on to win the prep school championships that year and the team traveled to England to compete in tournaments there...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...