educational reforms
Improving learning systems
Educational reforms are deliberate changes to schooling systems, policies, or practices intended to improve outcomes.
Reforms may target curriculum, teaching methods, funding structures, or access: The educational reforms emphasized STEM subjects.
The term often appears in political discourse, where proposed reforms reflect competing visions of what schools should accomplish: Critics argued the educational reforms prioritized testing over learning.
- charter schoolsIndependent public education institutions
- school vouchersState-issued tuition payments
- school choiceSelecting among educational institutions
- race to the topContest for supremacy
- standardized testingIdentical assessments across populations
Common Core · decentralization · national curriculum · back to basics · resource allocation · teacher certification · dropout prevention · parent involvement · curriculum standards · digital literacy · peer tutoring · vocational training · policy · schools · legislation · modernization · standards · teachers
- Asian educationConfucian academies, civil service exams, private academies, Peking University, examination halls
- Education Topicspublic schools, private schools, scholarships, tutoring, teacher training
- Brazilian Educationprofessor, vestibular, colegio, campus, biblioteca
- College Historyfounding date, college presidents, founding documents, historical records, landmark buildings
- education historypublic schooling, one-room school, medieval universities, elementary school, schoolhouse
- school historypublic schooling, school reforms, college history, teacher training, school districts
educational reformsinaction
Deliberate nonmovement
complacency · doing nothing · foot-dragging · benign neglect · kicking the can down the road