DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i08.023

Pages: 974-978

Since the 1980s, the United States policy of compulsory education enrollment has undergone great change： the limitation of school choice changes into encouraging school choice. The US government encourages parents to choose school, aiming to use market means to achieve the goal of education reform. Introduce market mechanisms into the field of education, achieving the optimal allocation of educational resources through competition, stimulating the enthusiasm of teachers, which are all in order to improve public schools’ quality and efficiency. School choice contributes greatly to the American public school reform. It also has a profound and extensive influence on the American public school system. This article is divided into three parts, the first part is the analysis of the causes of school choice, followed by the analysis of the impact of school choice, and the last part is the Enlightenment and reference for our country.