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Introduction. What do national standards really mean? / Gary DeCoker -- The development of the Course of study and the structure of educational reform in Japan / Hiroshi Azuma -- Setting national standards : educational reform, social change, and political conflict / Gerald K. LeTendre -- How do Japanese and U.S. elementary science textbooks differ? : Depth, breadth, and organization of selected physical science units / Ineko Tsuchida and Catherine C. Lewis -- The creation of Japanese and U.S. elementary science textbooks : different processes, different outcomes / Catherine C. Lewis, Ineko Tsuchida and Samuel Coleman -- Comparing Japanese and U.S. teachers' manuals : implications for mathematics teaching and learning / Shin-ying Lee and Akane Zusho -- Individual differences and Japan's Course of study / Harold W. Stevenson -- Teacher professional development in Japan / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- "It's glacial" : incrementalism and Japan's reform of foreign language education / David L. McConnell -- Deregulating Japan's high school curriculum : the unintended consequences of educational reform / Gary DeCoker -- The role of the private sector in determining national standards : how juku undermine Japanese educational authority / Nancy Ukai Russell -- Epilogue. Concluding observations : wider contexts and future issues / Thomas P. Rohlen