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cram school
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cram school
n.
A school especially in Japan that prepares its students for university entrance examinations by way of an accelerated curriculum.


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A reform package announced earlier this year includes measures to normalise public education and to limit the opening hours of the private cram schools.
The third of Japanese crime queen Kirino's novels to be translated into English is a tense, worried book of actions and consequences, and a telling portrait of a group whose life of cram schools and preoccupied parents leaves them distrustful of the adult world they are being groomed for.
In the academic career-oriented society of Japan, many parents send their children to cram schools in a bid to enroll them at prestigious institutions.
 
 
 
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