The Politics of Structural Education Reform Routledge Research in Education 1st Edition by Keith Nitta ISBN 0415541956 978-0415541954

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ISBN 10: 0415541956 

ISBN 13: 978-0415541954

Author: Keith Nitta

Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who will teach them, and how it will be paid for clearly rests with some mix of district, state, and national policymakers. This book seeks to show how global trends have produced similar changes to very different educational systems in the United States and Japan. Despite different historical development, social norms, and institutional structures, the U.S. and Japanese education systems have been restructured over the past dozen years, not just incrementally but in ways that have transformed traditional power arrangements. Based on 124 interviews, this book examines two restructuring episodes in U.S. education and two restructuring episodes in Japanese education. The four episodes reveal a similar politics of structural education reform that is driven by symbolic action and bureaucratic turf wars, which has ultimately hindered educational improvement in both countries.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction 

2. Traditional U.S. and Japanese Education Policymaking 

3. Explaining Policy Change in the U.S. and Japan  

4. Winning with Moderate Structural Reform: Goals 2000 and the Improving America’s Schools Act 

5. Institutionalizing Structural Education Reform: The No Child Left Behind Act 

6. Structural Reform Invades Japanese Education: The Program for Education Reform 

7. The Japanese Structural Education Reform Boom: The Trinity Reform and Education Rebuilding Council 

8. The Politics of Structural Education Reform in Other Contexts 

9. Conclusion.  Appendix: List of Interviews

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