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In his essay, ”Education works well in Japan,” Herbert Walberg fails to note that in Japan the people are homogeneous.

Children in our country come from parents of European ancestry, African lineage and Spanish-speaking cultures. Our teachers work with diversity, a heterogeneous student body. How, then, can we hope to turn out as homogeneous a group as Japan?