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Aoki, Eiichi; Henig, Jeffrey R. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Since the early 1990s, the United States has been witnessing reforms in large, high-visibility cities, with mayors granted the power to appoint school boards, superintendents, or both. This shift away from elected school board governance has been characterized as marginalizing traditional educators and ushering in reforms that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship, Governance, Partnerships in Education
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Tokuyama, Akira – Peabody Journal of Education, 1993
Universities and prefectual and local boards of education share responsibility for Japanese inservice teacher education. Results from teacher surveys and analysis of some 2,300 dissertations from the first university (established in 1983) to offer master's degrees for inservice education indicate teachers' preferences in research topics and types…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1905
The Commissioner's introduction to Volume 1 includes state school system statistics. Chapter I addresses vacation schools, playgrounds, and settlements, with discussion of poor children in major cities, playground conditions, playground social conditions, play psychology, and settlement-movement history. Subsequent chapters cover laws concerning…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Vacation Programs, Playgrounds, Urban Youth