Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea Artificial or on which linguistic conventions

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Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea Artificial or on which linguistic conventionsInternational comparisons of student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading have consistently shown that Japanese and Korean students outperform their peers in other parts of world. Understandably, this has attracted many policymakers and researchers seeking to emulate this success, but it has also attracted strong criticism and a range of misconceptions of the Japanese and Korean education system. Directly challenging these misconceptions,