If you have read any of my previous blogs you will know that I came to Japan in August of 2003 in order to study and teach in the Japanese school system. I left a relatively easy assignment in Baltimore City Public School System for world travel and a different perspective on education. In America, I often heard how the Japanese used the team approach and how their students score higher than their American counterparts. I came to find out why. I learned Japanese children study the facts and that...