A STUDY OF COLLEGE-BOUND EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS-FROM AN U.S.-JAPAN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Research Project

Project/Area Number	10610275
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	TANAKA Yoshiro TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LETTERS PROFESSOR, 文学部, 教授 (00188351)
Project Period (FY)	1998 – 2000
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000) Fiscal Year 2000: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 1999: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000) Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Keywords	College-bound High School Education / College Education in the Universal Age / Significance of College-School Relations on Learning Experiences / Remedial Education in College / Educational Reform in the U.S. / College Preparatory / Gear-up Project / Universal Access in Higher Education / CPカレッジプレパラとリー / Gear Up プロジェクト / アメリカの教育革命
Research Abstract	Educational Reform on K-12 reflects how the nation educates their children. Today's efforts on the high school education reform in the U.S.and Japan do not help students to perform well at the college. They need something different at the high school to prepare for their better college learning lives. However, there are many students who go to colleges today for their better careers and lives in the age of the so-called universal higher education. As a result, many colleges must supply remedial education programs to those students for their successful college lives. Today, this is a major role for many colleges in the U.S.and Japan as well. The U.S.faced this situation earlier than Japan. The U.S.experiences help Japan to think about it. This study explored the inconsistent relation between high school education and college education in the U.S.and Japan, and suggested how we restructure the educational system to face the age of the universal and the socalled universal access in higher education.