Why have the Number of Correspondence High SchoolsIncreased?：

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  • なぜ通信制高校は増えたのか
  • なぜ通信制高校は増えたのか : 後期中等教育変容の一断面
  • ナゼ ツウシンセイ コウコウ ワ フエタ ノ カ : コウキ チュウトウ キョウイク ヘンヨウ ノ イチ ダンメン
  • One Element in the Transformation of Upper Secondary Education
  • ―後期中等教育変容の一断面―

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<p>The aim of this paper is to clarify the mechanism by which the number of correspondence high schools has increased since the 1990s by focusing on the approval process involved. To do this, we collected the briefs for each school's establishment and private school council materials, and conducted a survey of local governments. As a result, the following three points were clarified.<br><br>First, each corporation that intended to start a correspondence high school had established such a high school as a place that accepts students who don’t fit in to full-time high schools. It is important for their approval that the private correspondence high schools do not compete with existing high schools and the students enrolled in them. It was also confirmed that a newly established correspondence high schools should to some extent accept “irregular student groups”, such as high school dropouts.<br><br>Secondly, in the administration of private schools, the correspondence high schools were placed in a special position. Specifically, there are not a few local governments that exclude correspondence high school students from the subjects of admission capacity adjustment, and the issue of their capacity differed from that for full-time/part-time high schools.<br><br>Thirdly, one institutional incentive that had a positive influence on the increase in the correspondence high schools since the 2000s has been a flexibilization of the school settings through the amendment of the regulations on correspondence education. Furthermore, the nature of this influence depends on the school’s predecessor. Existing school corporations were mainly influenced by a mitigation of faculty constants, and the new entrants were mainly influenced by the new entrance mitigation of the faculty constants and the self-ownership requirement of the school district/school building.<br><br>Based on the above analysis, we verify that the “acceptance of high school dropouts” is a major variable that explains the increase in correspondence high schools. Also, various educational institutions surrounding secondary education began to change their systems of management into correspondence high schools that intend to accept high school dropouts.<br><br>One remaining problem is that in the current situation independent criteria for correspondence schools and high schools have not been established for each local government. On this point, establishing the standards for setting prefecture-specific standards will also provide opportunities for thinking about the best way forward for municipal education administrations while allowing for smooth installation and authorization where transparency is ensured in a way that, hopefully, will lead to quality control for all correspondence high schools.</p>

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