Book ReviewNational Standard and School Reform in Japan and the United States edited by Gary DeCoker. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 2002. 218 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐8077‐4200‐7.
Sally Cohen has written an important and comprehensive analysis of child-care policy in the United States, challenging the conventional wisdom that no such federal policy exists and that child care is not a major government priority, in contrast to other democratic welfare states (e.g., the Scandinavian countries and France).