{"id":13465,"date":"2010-09-08T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13465"},"modified":"2010-09-08T00:50:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T04:50:32","slug":"jet-roi-dont-blame-jet-for-japans-poor-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/08\/jet-roi-dont-blame-jet-for-japans-poor-english\/","title":{"rendered":"JET ROI:  Japan Times column says &#8220;Don&#8217;t blame JET for Japan&#8217;s poor English&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent column from <em>The Japan Times<\/em> by Debito Arudou (not a JET or JET alum) that does a nice job of addressing the oft-heard (and rather misleading) charge that JET has not led to improvement in English scores in Japan:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100907ad.html\"><strong>http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100907ad.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has a bit of snark and falls into some generalizations, but the underlying point as well as the thoughtful analysis are spot on and greatly appreciated here on JetWit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent column from The Japan Times by Debito Arudou (not a JET or JET alum) that does a nice job of addressing the oft-heard (and rather misleading) charge that JET has not led to improvement in English scores in Japan:\u00a0 http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100907ad.html It has a bit of snark and falls into some generalizations, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3vb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13467,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13465\/revisions\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}