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
Biography
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.
"…a timely addition to the English-language corpus on education in contemporary Japan. As the title suggests, it simultaneously builds upon and transcends the aforementioned works that preceded it."--Mark Lincicome, Journal of Japanese Studies, 35:2 (2009)
"Niita’s well-written, important, and sound analysis—thick with minute details of national and bureaucratic political maneuvering—can be read not simply as an account of recent policy developments in America and Japan but as commentary on debates, challenges, and puzzles central to much of comparative education."--Jeremy Rappleye, Comparative Education Review (May 2009), 304-307
