Abstract

The article presents the results of the discussions during the XVIII International Conference “Education and the Perspectives of National Development” with the panel “The Contemporary School: Tendencies for Development and Reflections of the Experience”, which was conducted at National Pedagogical H. S. Skovo­roda University in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May, 19-20, 2017. A short review of reports made by participants of the conference, which were devoted to the problem of modernization of secondary education, are provided The school education reform in Ukraine should not be restricted by the program documents, but need to create a space for pedagogical and social creativity. Only under these conditions it would be possible to realize the modernization strategy of the contemporary school. The Eu­ropean experience of innovative development of school education is generalized.