Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Bothell. He contributed an article on āDecision Makingā to SAGE Publicationsā Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), and a version of this article was used for his Britannica entry on this topic.
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,...
