education reform
Improving school systems
Education reform refers to efforts to change educational systems, policies, or practices to improve outcomes.
Reform movements typically target curriculum, teaching methods, funding, school choice, or accountability measures.
The term often carries political freight—what counts as reform depends on who's proposing it: Critics dismissed the education reform as union-busting.
The governor ran on a platform of education reform.
- school boardsBodies governing local education
- lesson plansPrepared teaching frameworks
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- online learning platformsWeb-based instructional systems
- bilingual programsInstruction using two languages
charter schools · standardized testing · mentorship programs · federal mandates · accreditation · achievement gap · decentralization · social justice · privatization · policy · gap · charter · voucher programs · superintendent · teachers · parent involvement · class size · dropout
- reformreformer, reformist, democratic reforms, structural change, overhaul
- Korean historyJoseon dynasty, Three Kingdoms, DMZ, demilitarized zone, Korean DMZ
- education historypublic schooling, one-room school, medieval universities, elementary school, schoolhouse
- education reformCommon Core, No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, high-stakes testing, school choice
- enlightenmentVoltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Montesquieu
- reformsderegulation, privatising, labor laws, labor reforms, liberalization
education reformstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
traditional education · traditionalism · back to basics · classical education · business as usual
reform, education, educated, educational, uneducated, educating, educative, educationist, educations