The Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education has additionally designated Kashiwayo High School in Yokohama City and Atsugi High School in Atsugi City as priority schools for improving academic ability to develop human resources who can play an active role as leaders in Japan and the international community in the future. This is the third and fourth school after Yokohama Midori High School in Yokohama City and Shonan High School in Fujisawa City, which were designated in advance in October 2017.
According to the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education, priority schools for improving academic ability are designated from among the applicant schools based on the prefectural high school reform implementation plan formulated in January 2016. It is selected based on five indicators, such as the student academic ability survey at the time of the second grade conducted by the school, and more than 1% of the students have acquired English ability equivalent to the second grade of the board of education.
The designated period this time is 2018 years from April 4, 1 to March 2021, 3.Fifteen schools, including Kamakura High School in Kamakura City and Koryo High School in Yokohama City, had applied.The designated school will utilize the time of class and integrated study to develop the ability to discover problems and solve problems by themselves, aiming to realize the course desired by students.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education plans to start recruiting new schools for the next academic ability improvement priority school designation, and while watching the achievement status of the five indicators, it is a policy to additionally designate if the corresponding school comes out according to the achievements. ..
