TOKYO — Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten ... as teachers and parents had feared it could be a disturbed person with a shoe fetish. Japanese customarily take their ...

Impact Link This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nic Lim, an author from New Zealand who moved to Japan for four years to work as an English teacher. It has been edited for length ...

Court extends arrest of Hadera childcare provider Levana Shem Tov, following investigation of child abuse.

Exacerbating the shortage of educators across Japan ... teachers; 52,629 (2,355) for senior high school teachers; 12,300 (1,094) for special-needs school teachers; and 44,225 (1,928) for ...

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Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten when security camera catches weasel in the act TOKYO | Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan ...

The principal factor behind the nationwide teaching shortage is the shrinking number of young Japanese who want to become teachers. There are various reasons for the declining popularity of the ...

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Along similar lines, findings from a study titled ‘Influence of Teacher Collaboration on Job Satisfaction and Student Achievement,’ shows that in the United States, collaboration during planning ...

Loading Last year, a council in Melbourne banned Christmas gifts for kindergarten teachers over fears of bribery and corruption, while some schools report increasingly lavish gifts, including Dom ...

At his old school, I’d talk to his teachers at regular parent-teacher conferences, but his current teachers contact me all the time and seem to expect that I’ll be more involved than they are ...