The international comparisons based on these reports were confined to an overview from Hungary of the various reform efforts and four reports from the United States that made international comparisons of curricula and teacher training ( Schubring, 1988a). The comparisons were descriptive rather than analytic; for example, the major curriculum comparison ( J. C. Brown, 1915) consisted of little more than lists of syllabi, and the point seemed to be simply to show how the U.S. curriculum diverged from commom European practice.