educational reform
Changing learning systems
Educational reform refers to efforts to change or improve schooling systems—their structure, curriculum, teaching methods, or funding.
Reform movements arise from perceived failures: low test scores, inequality, outdated curricula.
The term spans everything from standardized testing mandates to abolishing homework: The superintendent championed educational reform focused on smaller class sizes.
What counts as reform depends heavily on who's proposing it.
- school fundingMoney allocated to schools
- standardized testingIdentical assessments across populations
- teach to the testInstruction narrowed to exam content
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- charter schoolsIndependent public education institutions
online learning platforms · No Child Left Behind · race to the top · achievement gap · desegregation · digital literacy · virtual classrooms · privatization · policy · schools · standards · teachers · charter · dropout · equity · vouchers · mandate · bureaucracy
- Arab educationprivate schools, government schools, religious schools, primary schooling, secondary schooling
- education historypublic schooling, educational reforms, one-room school, medieval universities, elementary school
- Education PolicyK-12, curriculum standards, school funding, educational standards, federal funding
- education theorycurriculum, child development, reasoning skills, practical knowledge
- enlightenmentVoltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Montesquieu
- Historical Educationgrammar schools, schooling, literacy, pedagogy, schoolmasters
educational reformbenign neglect
Purposeful non-intervention proving beneficial
educational reformstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
traditionalism · traditional education · classical education · preservationism · entrenchment