Under the new urbanization,dismantling teaching points and merging schools have been the inevitable choice of the distribution adjustment of rural schools.In the late19th century and the mid-20th century,the United States and Japan had respectively launched a school merger movement and accumulated considerable reform experience.By comparing the experience of the United States and Japan,we found that there is commonality between the two countries in educational equity and efficiency,the development law of education,the implementation of procedures and security system,which can provide a referen...