Reform schools should provide ideological education, cultural education, labor and technical education and vocational education to minors who receive compulsory education in reform schools.

Work-study schools used to refer to work-study schools, but now they refer to correctional institutions that supervise and reform juvenile offenders. Work-study school is a special form of general education and belongs to the characteristic school of ordinary middle schools. Its students are all problem students with abnormal psychology, abnormal behavior, abnormal learning foundation and abnormal learning ability.

It is of great significance for work-study schools to change their educational concepts, do a good job in the transformation of education and teaching for problem students, and strive to make work-study education a teaching method that optimizes the structure of compulsory education and improves the quality of education.