Post by Otaku on Mar 10, 2008 13:26:35 GMT 8
This passage is quoted directly from the MEXT website. However, it has been edited to fix the grammatical mistakes
"The School Education Law states that pupils and students at all elementary, lower and upper secondary schools and schools for the blind, schools for the deaf and schools for otherwise handicapped children are required to use textbooks. The textbooks to be used must be either those authorized by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, or those the copyright of which is owned by MEXT.
Textbooks are written and edited in the private sector,with each author's ingenuity (1), and the Minister approves them in accordance with the Course of Study and the Standards for Textbook Authorization through deliberations by the Textbook Authorization and Research Council (2). The process ensures that descriptions in proposed textbooks are both objective and impartial, and free from errors, and that proper educational considerations are paid. Additionally, the results of the previous year's authorization are publicized at eight locations nationwide. Information is also available on the MEXT website.
Local boards of education, the authority to set up local schools, determine which authorized textbooks to be adopted and actually used at each school in the locality (3).
In order to ensure wider realization of the concept of free compulsory education, as stipulated in the Constitution of Japan, the textbooks used at national, public and private schools at the compulsory education level are offered to pupils free of charge. (4) & (5).
www.mext.go.jp/english/org/formal/05d.htm
"The School Education Law states that pupils and students at all elementary, lower and upper secondary schools and schools for the blind, schools for the deaf and schools for otherwise handicapped children are required to use textbooks. The textbooks to be used must be either those authorized by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, or those the copyright of which is owned by MEXT.
Textbooks are written and edited in the private sector,with each author's ingenuity (1), and the Minister approves them in accordance with the Course of Study and the Standards for Textbook Authorization through deliberations by the Textbook Authorization and Research Council (2). The process ensures that descriptions in proposed textbooks are both objective and impartial, and free from errors, and that proper educational considerations are paid. Additionally, the results of the previous year's authorization are publicized at eight locations nationwide. Information is also available on the MEXT website.
Local boards of education, the authority to set up local schools, determine which authorized textbooks to be adopted and actually used at each school in the locality (3).
In order to ensure wider realization of the concept of free compulsory education, as stipulated in the Constitution of Japan, the textbooks used at national, public and private schools at the compulsory education level are offered to pupils free of charge. (4) & (5).
www.mext.go.jp/english/org/formal/05d.htm