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Trends in Educational Reform
Section 2 Educational Reform Q&A
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As regards unified lower and upper secondary schools, I have heard that various things can be learned in a comfortable atmosphere, but what are these schools like? Furthermore, will their numbers increase in the future?

A

Unlike conventional lower and upper secondary schools in which three years are spent learning in each, unified lower and upper secondary schools represent a new type of school in which each and every student is able to learn in a relaxed atmosphere amid a coherent educational content and environment lasting six years from lower to upper secondary school.

There are presently 17 of these schools, but we are aiming for approximately 500 to be established across Japan so that all of Japan's students and children's parents or guardians are also able to choose unified lower and upper secondary schools in addition to conventional lower and upper secondary schools.


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