Keith A Nitta

The Politics of Structural Education Reform

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines recent restructuring episodes in both the US and Japanese educational systems and reveals 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415541954
• ISBN-10: 0415541956
• Artikelnr.: 57051569

Autorenporträt

Keith A. Nitta is an Assistant Professor at the Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas. He was a Coro Fellow, a JET Program teacher and California Legislature staff, and has published articles on U.S.-Japanese politics and organization theory.

Inhaltsangabe

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