The paragraphs you'll want to read begin here, I hope.
A couple other interesting links I found (there aren't that many) ...
A Comparative Understanding of American Educational Missions to Korea and Japan after World War II
At this point the American Education Mission to Germany influenced the on-going plan for sending an educational mission to Korea. After the Mission to Japan returned with a favorable impression, U.S. government authorities resumed discussing the issue of an Educational Mission to Germany. The National Education Association(NEA) played a constructive role in bringing about the Office of the Military Government (U.S.) for Germany's(OMGUS) official request for the Educational Mission on May 8, 1946. The Mission, with Dr. George F. Zook as chairman, left the U.S. on August 23 and stayed in Germany for about one month to study and observe the educational situation in the U.S. Zone. On September 20, 1946, they submitted their report to General Clay, Deputy Military Governor, and returned to the U.S. on September 26, 1946. As this brief schedule shows, the Education Mission to Germany was hastily carried forward after USEMJ, even though the idea of an educational mission to postwar Germany had first been suggested early in June 1945 by the National Education Association. A year of occupation elapsed without any basic policy change in educational reform in Germany under the four powers' ruling by division for a number of reasons. First of all, it was hard to arrive at a consensus among four countries with different political ideologies and educational traditions. Likewise, conflicting attitudes in the U.S. toward educational reform of Germany made it more difficult to reach an agreement. A positive attitude toward the imposition of the American educational ideology and system on Germany was coupled with the negative attitude that the U.S. should respect the German educational culture and system already in existence. The fact that the Soviet Union had the most comprehensive educational reform program in Germany also stimulated the U.S. to adopt an active program. The resulting solution was to invite a group of educational specialists from the U.S. as soon as possible.
Unfavorable impressions from the Education Mission to Germany likely had an influence upon the delay of the educational mission to Korea. Especially the subject of comprehensive schools sparked controversy. William Benton, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, expressed his personal dissatisfaction with the final report on some points and detracted the value. A few private citizens also challenged the validity of the mission report. OMGUS considered the report as only a supporting document or a supplement. The Mission's hesitant attitude toward occupied Germany resulted in passive and inarticulate policy recommendations. The mission to Germany made little impact on German education reform.
and last, but certainly not least ...
In the 1980s and again, in the 1990s newwaves of reform brought different challengesand a new awareness of changing demandsand expectations. Other commissions, councils,and committees would issue numerous, com-prehensive, and relevant reports addressingthe problems and issues of higher education-in an open, voluntary, and rapidly changing society.
Throughout the ensuing "stages" ofprotest, dissent, reform, renewal that characterized the postwar years, the influence of wartime experiences could be detected as "alive, if not in good health".
Despite many false starts, sudden changesof direction, periodic loss of momentum, roller-coaster ups and downs, and unpredictableweather, higher education has made remark-able progress. And despite the difficulty ofcharting their course of progress-and with the continuing problem of never knowingits destination-higher education, as it is known in the first year of a new millennium, can identify its "new departure" or "turningpoint" as "wartime experiences that encour-aged postwar planning."
(I'll have to read the whole thing -- to be fair, natch -- in order to decide for myself if that's a good thing ... =)
Regards, your friend the Delphic ... uh, something besides princess, eh?
Regards,
L