The progressive education movement is an educational innovation trend in the United States, which originated at the end of 19 and lasted until the 1950s. Its "laboratory" is mainly American public schools. Compared with the "new education" in Europe, progressive education pays more attention to the education of ordinary people, the connection between education and social life, learning in practice and the democratization of schools.

Its representative figures are Rice, Dewey and Parker. The Progressive Education Movement includes educational innovation theories and experiments based on Dewey's educational philosophy. It is organized by the Progressive Education Association to reform American school education. Progressive education aims at opposing the political and economic ills of industrial society, striving to reform education and social affairs at the same time, exposing various serious problems in public schools, and trying to adapt school education to the new needs of American society through reform.

(advantages)? The progressive education movement has made American school education more practical. The school has increased more activities, opened more vocational courses and technical courses, and paid more attention to cultivating young people's ability to adapt to society, individuals and occupations. Science and scientific research have been paid attention to.

(disadvantages)? However, some extreme practices in the movement undoubtedly reduced the quality of school education, undermined the role that schools should play in imparting human cultural knowledge, and caused adverse consequences.