The reforms started in September 2001 with about 420, 000 primary- and junior secondary-school students (out of a national total of more than 215m) taking part in 38 experimental zones around the country.

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He and the band's drummer, Robb Reiner (no relation to Hollywood director Rob Reiner), met as junior-high-school students in Toronto, felt an immediate musical kinship and, in the face of raised hopes, dashed hopes, big-deal record-label indifference and ever lowered expectations, have been rocking out together ever since.

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The family hoped to be able to enroll Ryohei in Shiba Junior High School, a springboard for students into the even more sought-after Tokyo University.

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Colorado native Joe Curnow, a junior in Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, is joining 17 other students for a trip to Des Moines sponsored by the School of Education's Service Learning Certificate Program.

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