The progressive education movement is also called the "progressive education movement". /kloc-American education innovation movement at the end of 0/9. It is similar in nature to the new education movement in Europe and echoes from afar. It is an integral part of the social reform movement to meet the needs of industrial revolution, urban-rural transformation, frontier development and a large number of immigrants after the American Civil War.

His theory comes from the educational thoughts in European history, especially Rousseau, Pestalozzi and Froebel, and is also deeply influenced by modern science, especially biological science and evolution. Criticize the European formalism curriculum followed by the United States at that time, and oppose the tendency of outdated teaching materials and methods, numerous rules and regulations, and serious disconnection between education and production.

The reasons for the decline of the progressive education movement are:

1, sports can't keep up with the constant changes of American society and can't better adapt to the requirements of American social development for education;

2. There are many contradictions and limitations in theory and practice, such as overemphasizing children's individual freedom and ignoring the decision and restriction of social and cultural development on education;

3. The diversity of guiding ideology and theoretical basis, the relative unity of movement, and the contradiction between educational theory and practice lead to internal division;

4. The attacks of reformism and conservatism hit the key point to a great extent and accelerated its decline.