School reform initiatives as balancing acts: Policy variation and educational convergence among Japan, Korea, England and the United States

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 9, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Lee, Jaekyung ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b Natl Academy of Education/Spencer   (United States)

^c Natl Academy of Education/Spencer ^*  (South Korea)

^d American Educational Research Association   (United States)

^e NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

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