Comparative analysis of Soviet and Russian school education

Abstract

Currently, the Russian Federation is implementing the national project «Education», the key goals of which are to ensure the global competitiveness of Russian education and to become one of the top 10 countries in the world in terms of quality of education. The article presents a comparative analysis of the principles of the educational systems of the Soviet and Russian schools. The article describes the key advantages and disadvantages of education in the Soviet era, which was based on ZUN (knowledge, skills). The article reveals the advantages and disadvantages of modern Russian education, the fundamental core of which is UUD (universal educational actions). The article emphasizes that, despite the introduction of the second-generation Federal state educational standards and the introduction of innovative technologies, the level of quality of education in the USSR (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was higher than at present.