This book on education and challenges in the Pacific Rim contains 12 papers as follows: "Introduction: Education Issues in the Pacific Rim" (Keith Sullivan); "We Can Change Tomorrow by What We Do Today: Aboriginal Teacher Education in Canada" (Lynn McAlpine); "Judging Education: Implications of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" (Jonathan L. Black-Branch); "Under the New Hegemonic Alliance: Conservatism and Educational Policy in the United States" (Michael W. Apple); "Training Rural Teachers in the Peruvian Andes" (John Wolforth); "Issues for Education in the South Pacific: Education and Change in the Kingdom of Tonga" ('Ana Koloto); "The Great New Zealand Education Experiment and the Issue of Teachers as Professionals" (Keith Sullivan); "Maori Education: Looking Back to the Future" (Kathie Irwin); "From Corporate to Supply-Side Federalism? Narrowing the Australian Education Policy Agenda" (John Knight and Merle Warry); "The Little Asian Tigers: Identities, Differences and Globalisation" (Anthony Sweeting and Paul Morris); "State Policy on Innovations for Education: Implications and Tasks for Japan" (Shin'ichi Suzuki); and "The Metamorphosis of China's Higher Education in the 1990s" (Limin Bai). (Papers contain references.) (SM)