Total costs equal fixed costs plus variable costs. Fixed costs remain stable, especially in the short term, but may vary with a longer time horizon. Fixed costs include building and equipment costs, regulatory fees and salaried personnel. In the long run, even fixed costs can vary.
Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education. Historically, reforms have taken different forms because the motivations of reformers have differed. However, since the 1980s, education reform has been focused on changing the existing system from one focused on inputs to one focused on outputs (i.e., student achievement).
Progressive Education. movement in American education. Confined to a period between the late 19th and mid-20th cent., the term progressive education is generally used to refer only to those educational programs that grew out of the American reform effort known as the progressive movement.rogressive Education. a bourgeois pedagogical concept whose adherents believe that the content, organization, and methods of instruction, especially in primary school, should be determined by the direct, spontaneous interests and needs of children rather than by the socioeconomic conditions and needs of society.