When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The percentage of the school-age population that was homeschooled increased from 1.7 percent in 1999 to 2.9 percent in 2007. The increase in the percentage of homeschooled students from 1999 to 2007 represents a 74 percent relative increase over the 8-year period and a 42 percent relative increase since 2003.

  3. Education in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Japan

    Japan's compulsory education ends at grade nine, but less than 2% drop out; 60% of students advanced to senior education as of 1960, increasing rapidly to over 90% by 1980, rising further each year until reaching 98.3% as of 2012. [36] Instruction in primary schools is often in the form of lectures.

  4. List of high schools in Tokyo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_schools_in_Tokyo

    Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior and Senior High School. Sacred Heart School in Tokyo (Senior high school division) St. Hilda's School (Kōran Jogakkō Junior High and Senior High School [ja]) St. Joseph's Junior and Senior High School. St. Mary's International School (Senior high school division) Seigakuin Junior & Senior High School.

  5. Secondary education in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education_in_Japan

    Secondary education in Japan. Japanese high school students wearing the sailor fuku. Secondary education in Japan is split into junior high schools (中学校 chūgakkō), which cover the seventh through ninth grade, and senior high schools (高等学校 kōtōgakkō, abbreviated to 高校 kōkō), which mostly cover grades ten through twelve.

  6. List of jukus in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jukus_in_Japan

    Toshin Yobiko [1] Offers homeschooling courses and broadcasts lectures to 800 satellite schools all over Japan. Eikoh Seminar [1] Offers online courses. Nichino-ken [1] Specializes in junior high entrance examinations, but also offers private tutoring from 1st grade to high school. Has 84 branch schools, 61 of them in the Tokyo Metropolitan area.

  7. Homeschooling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling

    Homeschooling or home schooling (American English), also known as home education or elective home education (EHE) (British English), [1] is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school. Usually conducted by a parent, tutor, or online teacher, many homeschool families use less formal, more personalized ...

  8. College-preparatory school - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College-preparatory_school

    Japanese pupils who aspire to a prep school education take written examinations in sixth grade in each prep school. [citation needed] Unlike six-year prep schools, the top municipal senior high school (three-year schools) in each school zone and some high-ranked private senior high schools (ditto) are also regarded as shingakukō (進学校 ...

  9. Homeschooling Grows as an Escape from Failing Schools and ...

    www.aol.com/news/homeschooling-grows-escape...

    Turned off by fumbling public schools and curriculum wars, families teach their own kids. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach ...