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Julia shares an enthusiastic and enabling vision of tutoring as a burgeoning space within the educational landscape

Japanese Lessons Yvonne Middlewick and the reception of itsGail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we