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...with the national mood. While Japanese say they're most worried about stagnant wages, a fragile pension system and growing social disparities, Abe has chosen to prioritize plans to revise Japan's pacifist constitution. While parents fret about declining academic standards, Abe's response has been to pass a reform bill that will attempt to make children more patriotic, and may bring back physical punishment to schools. "I'm not sure that constitutional revision should be the No. 1 issue," says Sadakazu Tanigaki, a former Finance Minister who ran against Abe in September's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election...
...Bring in the names of the people you want to cut. This is too vague,” he said. The committee is set to make a final decision on the budget in March. Members of the committee also heard an update on kindergarten-through-eighth grade report card reforms given by Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk. She explained the strides that a reform committee had taken toward providing a more informative curriculum guide, which will provide parents with a more in-depth look at classroom subjects. The current system, which employs 64 different report cards, would be thinned to simply...
...again be contacted, this time with information on the progress made towards resolving the targeted concern. For recently inaugurated UC leaders Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, the hotline represents early progress on a key campaign promise—teaching reform. According to Petersen, the goal of effecting pedagogical improvement was particularly well-received in his door-to-door campaign visits. And indeed, for their part, students do appear to recognize the need for the new program. Timothy D. Turner ’09—who said he had taken...
...good life,” and consequently about what a general education program should teach, when such agreement is precisely what contemporary society lacks. Writing in their book, “General Education in a Free Society,” the authors of the 1945 curricular reform at Harvard lamented: “As recently as a century ago no doubt existed about [the] purpose [of general education]: it was to train the Christian citizen…[But] this enviable certainty has largely disappeared...
...criticize it as an instrumentalist account of general education. But it seems to me better interpreted as the proposal that general education take place in the context of a broad inquiry about how we ought to live. This idea, I believe, is entirely laudable as a premise for reform...