Which effect did education reformers believe public education would have on the united states?

Basically education reformers believe that public education would have a positive effect on the United States such as the one constant for all forms of education reform includes the idea that small changes in education will have large social returns in citizen health, wealth and well-being. There may be a reduce cost to students and society since education reformers desire to make public education into a market in the form of an input-output system where accountability creates high-stakes from curriculum standards tied to standardized tests.