Educational gap has two patterns:

1. School

 If child’s parents get high income, child can go to a good school. But if parents don’t have much money, their children can’t go to a good school.

2. Private schools

 Private school tuition is very expensive. Only rich children can go to a private school.

Both related problems are it depend on parent’s income. Rich parent’s children can attend a good school and get high income in the future.  And the child’s children will get high income in the future too.

Finland has number one study ability in the world with little educational gap.

Japan must erase educational gap as soon as possible.

Sources

 wikipedia

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E6%A0%BC%E5%B7%AE

 BBC news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3963253.stm

2. Courses of study in the Japanese curriculum were greatly changed.

3. OECD reported that Japanese scholastic ability appears to be declining.

4. The Minister of Education acknowledged the negative effect of new courses of study.

5. Less strenuous education has advantage and disadvantage.

6. It is important to develop “power of life”, but we should avoid a drop in scholastic ability.

Sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%86%E3%81%A8%E3%82%8A%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2

http://www.mext.go.jp/ (http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/gakuryoku-chousa/sonota/071205/001.pdf)

by Yuna Negishi