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I strongly recommend to read this paper of Sharygin. (It is in Russian, but it worth to translate.) You will see the reasons to return EG in school, you will also the reasons why it disappears.

Sharygin is my hero, he is the author of many very good math books for school students, he also wrote the best (the opinion is mine) text book in Euclidean geometry for school.

P.S. Let me share what I know about the history of geometry curriculum in Russian school. We had textbook of Kiselev, which served for more than half century. It was changing slowly, at the beginning it was quite close to Euclid's Elements. (If you ask about geometry someone from the generation of my parents, their eyes start to radiate with positive energy and they start to explain how wonderful was the experience.)

After that (60-s) changes start. First Nikitin's book --- a big step back. After that, instead of coming back to Kiselev, many books were written by very prominent mathematicians (including Alexandrov and Pogorelov) these books were yet worse than Nikitin's book. Later Sharygin's book appears; it is a very good book but extremely demanding from the teacher (say absolute geometry was not discussed, but if the teacher is not familiar with absolute geometry then he can not teach properly).

Now we get so called "Unified state examination" (the worst reform ever made in Russia) it is either too expansive or impossible to check proofs on this exam; the later wipes geometry from the school curriculum; formally it is still there but since it is not needed to pass the exam, no one needs to learn it.

Conclusion: It seems that every big reform makes education worse. The right direction would be to change things gradually, and it has to be done by teachers with help of academia, not other way around.

I strongly recommend to read the paper Нужна ли школе 21-го века Геометрия? of Sharygin. (It is in Russian, but it worth to translate.) You will see the reasons to return EG in school, you will also the reasons why it disappears.

Sharygin is my hero, he is the author of many very good math books for school students, he also wrote the best (the opinion is mine) text book in Euclidean geometry for school.

P.S. Let me share what I know about the history of geometry curriculum in Russian school. We had textbook of Kiselev, which served for more than half century. It was changing slowly, at the beginning it was quite close to Euclid's Elements. (If you ask about geometry someone from the generation of my parents, their eyes start to radiate with positive energy and they start to explain how wonderful was the experience.)

After that (60-s) changes start. First Nikitin's book — a big step back. After that, instead of coming back to Kiselev, many books were written by very prominent mathematicians (including Alexandrov and Pogorelov); these books were yet worse than Nikitin's book. Later Sharygin's book appears; it is a very good book but extremely demanding from the teacher (say absolute geometry was not discussed, but if the teacher is not familiar with absolute geometry then he can not teach properly).

Now we get so called "Unified state examination" (the worst reform ever made in Russia); it is either too expansive or impossible to check proofs on this exam; the later wipes geometry from the school curriculum; formally it is still there but since it is not needed to pass the exam, no one needs to learn it.

Conclusion: It seems that every big reform makes education worse. The right direction would be to change things gradually, and it has to be done by teachers with help of academia, not other way around.

I strongly recommend to read this paper of Sharygin. (It is in Russian, but it worth to translate.) You will see the reasons to return EG in school, you will also the reasons why it disappears.

Sharygin is my hero, he is the author of many very good math books for school students, he also wrote the best (the opinion is mine) text book in Euclidean geometry for school.

P.S. Let me share what I know about the history of geometry curriculum in Russian school. We had textbook of Kiselev, which served for more than half century. It was changing slowly, at the beginning it was quite close to Euclid's Elements. (If you ask about geometry someone from the generation of my parents, their eyes start to radiate with positive energy and they start to explain how wonderful was the experience.)

After that (60-s) changes start. First Nikitin's book --- a big step back. After that, instead of coming back to Kiselev, many books were written by very prominent mathematicians (including Alexandrov and Pogorelov) these books were yet worse than Nikitin's book. Later Sharygin's book appears; it is a very good book but extremely demanding from the teacher (say absolute geometry was not discussed, but if the teacher is not familiar with absolute geometry then he can not teach properly).

Now we get so called "Unified state examination" (the worst reform ever made in Russia) it is either to expansive or impossible to check proofs on this exam; the later wipes geometry from the school curriculum; formally it is still there but since it is not needed to pass the exam, no one need to learn it.

Conclusion: It seems that every big reform makes education worse. The right direction would be to change things gradually, and it has to be done by teachers with help of academia, not other way around.

I strongly recommend to read this paper of Sharygin. (It is in Russian, but it worth to translate.) You will see the reasons to return EG in school, you will also the reasons why it disappears.

Sharygin is my hero, he is the author of many very good math books for school students, he also wrote the best (the opinion is mine) text book in Euclidean geometry for school.

P.S. Let me share what I know about the history of geometry curriculum in Russian school. We had textbook of Kiselev, which served for more than half century. It was changing slowly, at the beginning it was quite close to Euclid's Elements. (If you ask about geometry someone from the generation of my parents, their eyes start to radiate with positive energy and they start to explain how wonderful was the experience.)

After that (60-s) changes start. First Nikitin's book --- a big step back. After that, instead of coming back to Kiselev, many books were written by very prominent mathematicians (including Alexandrov and Pogorelov) these books were yet worse than Nikitin's book. Later Sharygin's book appears; it is a very good book but extremely demanding from the teacher (say absolute geometry was not discussed, but if the teacher is not familiar with absolute geometry then he can not teach properly).

Now we get so called "Unified state examination" (the worst reform ever made in Russia) it is either too expansive or impossible to check proofs on this exam; the later wipes geometry from the school curriculum; formally it is still there but since it is not needed to pass the exam, no one needs to learn it.

Conclusion: It seems that every big reform makes education worse. The right direction would be to change things gradually, and it has to be done by teachers with help of academia, not other way around.

I strongly recommend to read this paper of Sharygin. (It is in Russian, but it worth to translate.) You will see the reasons to return EG in school, you will also the reasons why it disappears.

Sharygin is my hero, he is the author of many very good math books for school students, he also wrote the best (the opinion is mine) text book in Euclidean geometry for school.

P.S. Let me share what I know about the history of geometry curriculum in Russian school. We had textbook of Kiselev, which served for more than half century. It was changing slowly, at the beginning it was quite close to Euclid's Elements. (If you ask about geometry someone from the generation of my parents, their eyes start to radiate with positive energy and they start to explain how wonderful was the experience.)

After that (60-s) changes start. First Nikitin's book --- a big step back. After that, instead of coming back to Kiselev, many books were written by very prominent mathematicians (including Alexandrov and Pogorelov) these books were yet worse than Nikitin's book. Later Sharygin's book appears; it is a very good book but extremely demanding from the teacher (say absolute geometry was not discussed, but if the teacher is not familiar with absolute geometry then he can not tech properly).

Now we get so called "Unified state examination" (the worst reform ever made in Russia) it is either to expansive or impossible to check proofs on this exam; the later wipes geometry from the school curriculum; formally it is still there but since it is not needed to pass the exam, no one need to learn it.

Conclusion: It seems that every big reform makes education worse. The right direction would be to change things gradually, and it has to be done by teachers with help of academia, not other way around.

I strongly recommend to read this paper of Sharygin. (It is in Russian, but it worth to translate.) You will see the reasons to return EG in school, you will also the reasons why it disappears.

Sharygin is my hero, he is the author of many very good math books for school students, he also wrote the best (the opinion is mine) text book in Euclidean geometry for school.

P.S. Let me share what I know about the history of geometry curriculum in Russian school. We had textbook of Kiselev, which served for more than half century. It was changing slowly, at the beginning it was quite close to Euclid's Elements. (If you ask about geometry someone from the generation of my parents, their eyes start to radiate with positive energy and they start to explain how wonderful was the experience.)

After that (60-s) changes start. First Nikitin's book --- a big step back. After that, instead of coming back to Kiselev, many books were written by very prominent mathematicians (including Alexandrov and Pogorelov) these books were yet worse than Nikitin's book. Later Sharygin's book appears; it is a very good book but extremely demanding from the teacher (say absolute geometry was not discussed, but if the teacher is not familiar with absolute geometry then he can not teach properly).

Now we get so called "Unified state examination" (the worst reform ever made in Russia) it is either to expansive or impossible to check proofs on this exam; the later wipes geometry from the school curriculum; formally it is still there but since it is not needed to pass the exam, no one need to learn it.

Conclusion: It seems that every big reform makes education worse. The right direction would be to change things gradually, and it has to be done by teachers with help of academia, not other way around.